Is your company losing valuable time and productivity because your employees are stressed
over their caregiving responsibilities?
Did you know that the primary family caregiver (generally, the middle aged eldest daughter
who may work for you) spends an average of almost 20 hours per week caring for an elderly parent?
While your employees may not take that much time off to help Mom and Dad, they essentially have another
job at night and on the weekends and eventually, the exhaustion will manifest itself in fatigue,
potential moral problems, and lost productivity at work!
The Buddy Check Network (BCN) can help!
We can help you by helping your employees cope with the daily grind of caregiving for a loved one.
Reducing your employee absenteeism will save your company thousands of hours in lost time and productivity!
The way we do this is by offering a helping hand to your employees
who are forced to take time away from work to care for elderly parents and loved ones.
“The Buddy Check Network” is an innovative mHealth solution that couples experienced
and caring caregivers with the incredible power of remote Medical Alert monitoring that enables family caregivers
to keep seniors to stay safe, healthy, and independent in their own homes.
Our partnerships with leading national Homecare agencies like Bayada Nurses and
The Visiting Nurses Association enable us to provide the highest level of skilled homecare
available.
The Buddy Check Network gives your employees peace of mind from knowing that Mom’s or Dad’s health condition is being proactively monitored,
by scheduled calls each day, even when their busy work schedule limits the amount of time they could reach out and check in by phone.
Our innovative in-home sensors will immediately communicate, changes in their loved ones conditions or activity, by phone, voice email,
or text message so family caregivers can intervene with a simple phone call before critical situations develop.
Service Features:
- Immediate Updates—Employees receive instant phone, SMS, and email messages when help is needed so that emergencies are prevented.
- Detailed Condition Statuses— Employees can access detailed real-time condition status summaries and detailed information about their loved one from any mobile phone or web site.
- Appointment Reminders– Employees eliminate unplanned absentees because of forgotten Doctor’s appointment or errands. They can schedule daily, weekly, or custom voice reminders for themselves and loved ones from any mobile phone or web site.
- Health Assessments– Skilled homecare nurses provide monthly medical assessments and medication management for employees loved ones.
- Homecare Services– We also help your employees keep Mom and Dad at home by helping with the chores, shopping, meal preparation and transportation to appointments, etc.
With the Buddy Check Network your employees will not only feel less stress and be more enthusiastic about work, but will be able to enjoy, once again, being the child to the parent they once were. The result is improved productivity on the job!
Contact us today to discover how we can add this important employee benefit to your existing package. We can customize a solution based on your company's particular needs!
About Caregiving and the Workplace
According to a recent survey conducted by MarketFacts, more than 40 % of
American households have previously or do currently provide care for a loved one, with a projected
escalation to nearly 50 percent in the next 5 years.
Employee's eldercare duties, according to analysts, is causing an estimated $29 billion dollars in
lost productivity each year..
Of caregivers who work full time:
- 80 % of working caregivers reported emotional strain
- 40 % missed work on a regular basis due to the health needs of an elderly loved one
- 50 % reported financial strain
- 54 % said they were unprepared for schedule juggling
- 49 % were unprepared for the amount of time caregiving takes
- 42 % were unprepared for balancing work and caregiving responsibilities