Human Resources: Helping Employees and Pre-Retirees: Managing Productivity and Finances

Absenteeism, attrition and reduced productivity often result from employees' elder caregiving responsibilities, financial difficulties, and health declines. Helping Employees and Retirees Address Their Futures will provide information on how employers can help their personnel prepare for "senior" risks, including catastrophic health and support care expenses, unnecessary worrying, poor quality providers and wasted effort. All employers can provide such assistance at little if any financial or administrative cost. Panelists will discuss some simple ways to help employees and retirees prepare for these kinds of situations, as well as the advantages to employers for doing so.

Absenteeism, attrition and reduced productivity often result from mature employees' financial difficulties, health declines and elder caregiving responsibilities. Florence Katz, who has designed employee health and long-term care benefit programs, developed health policy and implemented retirement programs, will moderate a panel discussing how employers can help their personnel prepare for "senior" risks. Participants will become more able to recognize employee needs; services available; and the social, psychological, professional and financial expenses involved. Participants will learn that providing valued support and assistance to their workforce and retirees can be undertaken at little to no financial or administrative cost.

Speakers will include Sally C. Hass, HR Benefits Employee of the Year, Weyerhaeuser Company, and Robert N. Bua, founder of CareScout, who created America’s first objective eldercare ratings system. They will discuss why and how employers can help employees, family members and retirees prepare for the range of needs brought about due to aging, rather than being forced to handle them when there are limited options available or when a family is in crisis. When a crisis is averted for an employee, it can also be avoided by the employer.

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