A Community Initiative to Engage Employers to Support Caregiving Employees and Build an Advocacy Alliance.
J Aging Soc Policy
; : 1-15, 2023 Jun 26.
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Family caregivers to persons living with a chronic or disabling condition often report disruption to their employment. Employment disruption can cause long-term financial difficulty and psychological distress for caregivers, high costs for employers, and exacerbates social inequities. In this commentary, we describe a community initiative to better support employees who are caregivers conducted with nonprofit employers in San Antonio, located in the central Texas region of the United States. This initiative aimed to raise awareness among local employers about the challenges employees face in balancing employment and caregiving. This led to the co-development of a pledge to guide employer efforts to support employees who are caregivers. This initiative represents a first step to mobilize employers as stakeholder allies to improve workplace support for family caregivers. The authors draw on the Shilton Model of Policy Advocacy to make the case that the mobilization of employers as advocacy stakeholders can hasten the advancement of policies that enable family caregivers to balance both roles. Further, the implementation of organization-level changes, in addition to state and federal policy changes, to support employed caregivers by employers is consistent with recommendations of the recently published National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.
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Equity_inequality
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J Aging Soc Policy
Asunto de la revista:
GERIATRIA
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2023
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Article
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