Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took a job handling the daily campaign schedule of Edward M. Kennedy '54-56. During the Democratic convention, he worked on the staff of the elder Kennedy and afterwards became coordinator for North Carolina...
This year's crop of candidates is unusual in that it includes two seniors. Traditionally, the council chairman has been a junior, who steps down to become an elder statesman member during his or her senior year...
...from their workers, companies are increasingly looking for ways to help ease the unavoidable conflicts between career and family. More than half of all U.S. firms provide some form of family benefits, ranging from paternity leave and flexible hours to assistance in finding the right nursing home for an elderly parent. The Merck pharmaceutical company helped start a day-care center near its Rahway, N.J., headquarters, and permits employees to start work as early as 7 a.m. or as late as 9:30 a.m. so that they can meet family obligations. Procter & Gamble offers workers unpaid child-care leave...
...child-care problem grows, so does the burden of caring for the elderly. Americans who are 75 or older are the fastest-growing segment of the population. Sociologists have dubbed today's workers the "sandwich generation" -- a put-upon group that has to attend to children on one side and parents on the other. Says Robert Beck, executive vice president for corporate human resources at Bank of America: "The focus may be on child care now, but elder care will become the critical issue of the future...
...Elder care lags behind child care on the corporate agenda, but increasing numbers of companies recognize that Grandpa can sometimes create more trouble than Junior. IBM learned in an employee survey last year that 30% of its workers help take care of elderly relatives. So starting last February, the computer company began operating the first nationwide elder-care referral service for its 237,000 employees and 33,000 retirees. In the first month alone, more than 4,000 employees called for help. Bobby Sloan, 55, an IBM equipment designer in San Jose, Calif., used the service to arrange medical care...