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CareGiverHelper offers families an easy way to organize and share criticalinformation on a secure online platform. Families can put all their supportinformation in one place, such as contact numbers of doctors and caregivers,medications and dosages, a common calendar with appointment reminders, andevents such as birthdays or anniversaries. There is also a place to storemedical, legal, insurance and other pertinent documents. CareGiverHelperstreamlines the organization and communication between family caregiversfacilitating daily activities, handling emergencies and assisting withlong-term planning.
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"Eldercare issues are moving to the forefront of legitimate workplaceconcerns as more and more individuals seek to balance family and workresponsibilities," said CareGiverHelper CEO Steven Dworkin. "Estimatesindicate that 25% - 35% of the workforce is now caring for a chronically illor aging family member. This number will rise dramatically over the nextdecade as the elderly population increases, the size of the family decreasesand the time span of care giving grows longer due to expanded lifetimes," hecontinued.
According to the MetLife Caregiver Cost Study, large and small businessesface relatively the same costs of care: $2,110 - $2,441 per employee. Thistranslates to an estimated cost of $33 billion annually in absenteeism,tardiness, workplace errors, increased supervisory costs and employees exitingthe workforce resulting in additional recruiting and training costs.
"CareGiverHelper offers a wonderful solution to dealing with thecomplexity of caring for a loved one and is a great complement to the richresources available on LifeWorks Online," said Zachary Meyer, CeridianLifeWorks senior vice president and general manager. "Our clients and theiremployees will now have access to a convenient area on the site where they canpersonalize and store important information about their health in a secureenvironment."
"CareGiverHelper makes it easier to coordinate care among family membersand avoid burn-out and the premature institutionalization of a loved one" saidDworkin.
About CareGiverHelper, Inc.
CareGiverHelper, Inc. (http://www.CareGiverHelper.com) is an Internethealthcare marketing Communications Company that provides critical tools thathelp businesses assist employees to successfully cope with the burden of longterm care giving. Steven Dworkin and Jonathan Quint developed CareGiverHelperto address their own family caregiving responsibilities and the tools havebeen designed to address the many challenges faced by family caregivers.
About Ceridian
Ceridian is a business services company that helps its customers maximizethe power of their people, lower their costs and focus on what they do best.The company's suite of innovative managed human resource solutions includespayroll and compensation, employee benefits administration, staffing,compliance, HR administration and employee assistance programs (EAP),work-life and health and productivity solutions. Through its Comdata andStored Value Solutions (SVS) subsidiaries, Ceridian is a major payment processand issuer of credit cards, debit cards and stored value cards, primarily forthe trucking and retail industries in the United States. Ceridian servesbusinesses and employees in the United States, Canada and Europe. For moreinformation about the human resource outsourcing company's comprehensive array
