Mark Smith

Caring for Your Company’s Caregivers

Employees will increasingly be thrust into this role. Start planning now. by Sarita Gupta and Ai-jen Poo

November 13, 2018

A few years ago, Joy Johnston flew across the country to help care for her father, who had Alzheimer’s. After she quickly used up the significant amount of paid time off she had accrued at her job, she applied for federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) benefits, but this proved difficult — her father regularly moved facilities, and the FMLA approval process requires a complicated array of hospital verification documents.

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Sarita Gupta is a codirector of Caring Across Generations, a national campaign working to transform our systems of care so that all caregivers and families can live and age with dignity. She is also the executive director of Jobs With Justice, and a nationally recognized expert on home care and the economic, labor, and political issues affecting working people, particularly women and low-wage workers. As a member of the “sandwich generation,” Sarita is grappling with the care issues facing more and more Americans, balancing caring for young children with caring for aging parents.

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Ai-jen Poo is a codirector of Caring Across Generations and the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She has been organizing immigrant women workers in New York since 1996. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America and a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Award.

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Caring for Your Company’s Caregivers

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