Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Senior Care Employers Rescue Home Care Path

Throughout south central Wisconsin the business owners have become aware that employees need help coordinating in home care for senior parents and family. Business owners can equate absenteeism, replacement of employees, senior care crises, unpaid leave, work day interruptions, inattentiveness (called deer in headlights look), and staff transitioning from full to part time status, to the adverse effect on the bottom line.

One business owner describes an employee who was frequently having to run down to a parents home. The employee was leaving an average of 4 times per full time shift worked. At work the employee was consistently preoccupied and down right worried most of the time. The employee took unpaid leave for the whole day at least once per week to accompany the parent to a medical appointment, blood lab draw, or podiatrist visit.

The employee often feels alone in their efforts to provide care for a parent or senior family member. Most individuals caring for an older family member report their needs are over whelming. Some adult children recall watching their parents struggle to care for their parents. Working full time with children in the home and parents who need help.

Fortunately Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com a senior care provider for south central Wisconsin has staff trained to help the employer and the employee. Home Care Path comes to the seniors home and helps them with meal preperation, medication reminders, setting up bath, dressing, pet care, oral care, hair care, taking garbage out, accompany to appointments, organizing important papers, companionship, grocery shopping, bringing mail in, and more.

Employees describe the service Home Care Path provides as family friendly. Hours of staffing and in home cares are developed to meet the families unique needs. The service is individualized, and allows for variation of hours from week to week. Families like the choice and flexibility.

Employers like the boost in staff productivity and job satisfaction. Business owners are convinced the service Home Care Path provides is the solution to the senior care giving challenges that make it difficult for employees to keep up with work responsibilities.

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