Aging & Work Facts Database

This database provides you with easy-to-access facts and statistics related to aging & work. Here you will find:

• A sentence with a fact/statistic.
• The full citation so you can locate the source of the statistic (e.g., article, report, etc.).
• A short description of the study connected to the fact/statistic.
• And, in some cases, a figure representing the facts or statistics, such as a bar graph.

SEARCH BY TOPIC: Age Bias and Employment Discrimination Business Strategies & Workforce Development Caregiving: Elder Caregiving: Employer-sponsored benefits for According to the 2008 National Study of Employers, 75 percent of employers say that they provide paid or unpaid time off for employees to provide elder care without jeopardizi...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 1% of HR professionals strongly disagreed with the statement "eldercare a...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 17% of HR professionals reported their organization provided "literature or e...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 21% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "eldercare referr...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 40% of HR professionals reported their organization allowed "employees to wor...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 45% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "flextime for eld...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 54% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "paid sick leave...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 29% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "paid family leav...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 35% of HR professionals reported their organization allowed "compressed work...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 1% of HR professionals strongly disagreed with the statement "providing e...  more The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that 77% of employers allow some employees to take time off for important personal...  more The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that in 2005, 20% of companies assisted in obtaining public benefits for potentiall...  more According to the 2008 National Study of Employers, 11% of employers with 100 or more employees offered fewer than 12 weeks as the maximum job-guaranteed leave for employees to...  more According to a 2006 MetLife report on caregiving costs, the total estimated cost to employers for all full-time, employed caregivers is $33.6 billion; the average cost per emp...  more Among employers participating in a 2007 national study, 30.5% reported that most/all of their full-time employees have the option of taking extended leave for caregiving. (p.1...  more In a 2007 national study, 22.4% of the employers reported that they allow employees who are grandparents to access at least some employee benefits for the care that they provi...  more Benefits related to caregiving responsibilities of employees that were offered by 20% or less of the organizations responding to a 2007 national survey include: pre-tax depend...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), approximately two thirds of employers indicated that they offer EAP for c...  more The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 100 or more employees, found that in 2005, 13% of employers provided fewer than 12 weeks of maximum job-guarant...  more The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that “79 percent of employers say that they provide paid or unpaid time off for e...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 1% of HR professionals strongly disagreed with the statement "providing e...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 74% of HR professionals reported their organization allows employees to u...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 69% of respondents reported their employer offered an "employee assistance pr...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 72% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "leave without pa...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 76% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "unpaid family le...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 88% of HR professionals reported that their organization offered "FMLA leave...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 90% of HR professionals reported that their organization offer...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), “almost three-quarters of HR professionals (74%) allow employees to use eld...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), “when asked whether their organization’s paid time off policy specificall...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), “only 6% of HR professionals reported their organization has a specific pol...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), “only one-quarter (25%) of HR professionals reported their organization off...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 66% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "paid funeral lea...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 64% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "dependent care...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 100% of HR professionals reported their organization did n...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 100% of HR professionals reported their organization did n...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 7% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "caregiver sup...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 10% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "job sharing...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 12% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "periodic informa...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 13% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "legal services f...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 13% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "employee leave s...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 13% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "brown bag lunche...  more According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 16% of HR professionals reported their organization offered "long-term care i...  more "... employer-provided elder care assistance programs increase the average retirement age of men by eight months, while the same programs increase the average retirement age o...  more      back to top For a print-ready file of all statistics for this topic, click here. Caregiving: Other (grandchildren, spouse, dependents) Demographics: Age Distribution, Life Expectancy Education and Training Educational Attainment Employee Engagement & Job Satisfaction Employer-sponsored benefits (see also Caregiving) Employment Preferences Flexible Work Options (general) Flexible Work Options: Bridge Jobs Flexible Work Options: Consulting, Contract Work, Self-employment Flexible Work Options: Flexible Schedule Flexible Work Options: Leaves of Absence Flexible Work Options: Part-time Employment Flexible Work Options: Phased Retirement Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, Telework Flexible Work Options: Work Redesign Gender Health: Health Behaviors Health: Health Care Costs Health: Health Insurance Health: Health Status Health: Workplace Injuries Income Knowledge Transfer Labor Force Participation Marital Status Medicare & Medicaid Mental Health Multi-generational Workplace Older Workers, Advantages of Older Workers, Costs of Older Workers, Job Skills and Demands Older Workers, Perceptions about Peformance, Productivity, Absenteeism Pensions and Retirement Accounts Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Reasons for working Recruitment , Retention, Tenure, Turnover Retirement Income & Expenditures Retirement Planning Retirement Statistics Retirement, Timing of Social Security Unemployment Voluntarism

DOWNLOAD A FACT SHEET: The following Fact Sheets contain selected facts and statistics from the database ( PDF format): "Mental Health" (Sep 2007) "Bridge Jobs" (Aug 2007) "Part-time Work" (Jul 2007) "The Multi-Generational Workplace" (Jul 2007) "Phased Retirement" (Jun 2007) "Age Bias And Employment Discrimination" (Feb 2007) "Employer Sponsored Pensions" (Feb 2007) "Age and the Labor Force" (Jan 2007) "Social Security and Older Workers" (Jan 2007) "Voluntarism Among Older Adults" (Jan 2007) "Older Workers’ Preferences for Work & Employ-ment" (Oct 2006) "Elder Caregiving" (Oct 2006)   SEARCH BY keyword: back to top