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Indirect caregiving costs to employers can add up to $10,098 per employee

In addition, compared with non-caregiving workers caregivers in the workplace have lower lifetime earnings.

By Scott Wooldridge | October 21, 2020 at 10:05 AM
Man at computerNearly half of caregivers reported difficulty concentrating on work due to health-related issues, and many say they have missed work in the past two weeks.

A new study finds that there are considerable workplace costs for workers who provide caregiving for people with treatment-resistant depression (TRD)—suggesting that such caregiving has a price for both caregivers and employers.

Related: COVID-19 has made the employee caregiving crisis more urgent than ever

The study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, surveyed caregivers who cared for people with TRD and non-TRD caregivers in the US. It finds that caregiving for this condition has an annual direct cost for caregivers of $29,805. This is a higher cost than for caregiving in a non-TRD group, which was $20,642. In addition, the study found indirect costs for TRD caregivers were $11,121 annually; for the non-TRD group, the indirect costs were $7,761 annually.

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