CONTACT: Pamela D. Wilson 303-810-1816
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Golden, Colorado – February 24, 2020
The Caring Generation® Radio Show How to Keep a Job and Care for Elderly Parents
Golden CO- Caregiving expert Pamela D. Wilson hosts The Caring Generation radio program for caregivers and aging adults this coming Wednesday, February 24th, on the Bold Brave Media Global Network. The program airs live at 9 p.m. EST. The Caring Generation® aired initially from 2009 to 2011 on 630 KHOW-AM in Denver, Colorado.
The caregiving topic for this week's program is How to Keep a Job and Care for Elderly Parents. Working caregivers struggle to balance commitments between working and caring for elderly parents. Fear of losing a job, being demoted, or having work assignments change is on the minds of working caregivers.
Support in the workplace is not equal for working caregivers of elderly parents and pregnancy - maternity leave. This absence of support for caregivers of elderly parents is increasingly resulting in workplace family responsibilities discrimination and lawsuits.
The guest for this program is attorney Cynthia Thomas Calvert, an expert in family responsibilities discrimination law. She is the owner of Workforce 21C and serves as a senior advisor for the Center for Work-Life Law based at the University of California Hastings College of Law. Cynthia will talk about workplace concerns of working caregivers and share information about caregiver discrimination.
The opportunity exists for working caregivers to be more proactive in asking for workplace support while caring for elderly parents. Digital caregiving programs are an option for corporations to make support available 24/7 for caregivers of elderly parents.
Justifying workplace programs may be difficult because surveying or counting working caregivers is difficult. Employees who are caregivers for elderly parents fear self-identifying or may not call themselves a caregiver.
Studies by Harvard and others confirm that employees caring for elderly parents are concerned about being viewed as less committed and reliable by supervisors and peers. Thirty percent of working caregivers choose to leave a job to care for an elderly parent. Little consideration of lost earnings and the difficulty of re-entry into the workforce happens before a working caregiver resigns to care for the elderly parent.
Little consideration is given to the life of the caregiver after caregiving ends. The majority of family time, effort, and money are spent on the care of the first person to become ill. This leaves the wife or daughter who is a caregiver at a severe financial disadvantage to pay for daily expenses and care when needed.
Increased consideration must be given to working caregivers and their contributions to keeping elderly parents at home. The workplace is one of the most obvious places where support can be provided but until caregivers speak up, a lack of support will continue to exist.
The February 26th edition of The Caring Generation offers 10 Tips for How to Keep a Job and Care for Elderly Parents. These practical tips apply to the workplace and to care situations for elderly parents. The Caring Generation radio shows offer tips and solutions to help caregivers and aging adults manage and feel more in control of caregiving relationships and situations.
Make plans to join Pamela D. Wilson, caregiving expert and the host of The Caring Generation® radio at 6 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Mountain, 8 p.m. Central, and 9 p.m. Eastern every Wednesday night. Replays of the weekly programs are available in podcast format with transcripts on Pamela's website and all major podcast sites.
Corporations interested in digital support programs for working caregivers can contact Pamela for more information about workplace caregiver programs. More information is available on Pamela's website.
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Check Out Podcast Replays of The Caring Generation® Radio Program for Caregivers and Aging Adults HERE
The podcast replays are great to share with family, friends, social groups, and the workplace. Listening to the Caring Generation podcasts are a great alternative for weekly book clubs. The Podcast replays are also an educational activity used at senior
Pamela D. Wilson, MS, BS/BA, CG, CSA is a national caregiving expert, advocate and speaker. More than 20 years of experience as a direct service provider in the roles of a court-appointed guardian, power of attorney, and care manager led to programs supporting family caregivers and aging adults who want to be proactive about health, well-being, and caregiving. Wilson provides education and support for consumers and corporations interested in supporting employees who are working caregivers. To carry out her mission, Wilson partners with companies passionate about connecting with the caregiving marketing through digital and content marketing. Her mission to reach caregivers worldwide is accomplished through social media channels of Facebook, YouTube, Linked In, Instagram, Caregiving TV on Roku, and The Caring Generation® radio on Internet radio. She may be reached at 303-810-1816 or through her website.