Employment Strategies
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Employment Strategies
Cancer diagnosis, some are there to help.
Should be the same for Dementia Diagnosis, it is a terminal illness with no cure
Understanding re endless phone calls, they cannot remember. I am an only child no other family, so mum would ring me three times in 5 minutes at work to ask a simple question.
They are frightened, they have no short term memory. Employers need to understand their brain is slowly dying and is no longer working. Everyone’s journey is unique.
Even if there is a large family, it usually always falls onto one member of the family and the rest do nothing to help in any way, except criticise. Do not assume they have lots of help, because they rarely do. I am an only child and had no other family, so had to do everything. We have to take over their finances, run their lives and it is absolutely exhausting.
All dementia carers need flexible work practices, where they can reduce their days of employment as their loved one declines. Every person with dementia declines differently and it affects them differently. There are over 100 types of dementia.
Where they can work from home, if need be, as their loved one is having a bad day and they need to be cared for
Career breaks like maternity leave but longer so they can return to their employer, very hard to return to their career when over 50 years of age huge ageism and this must stop.
Carers can return to work part time, as they are exhausted from being a full time carer.
Impossible to find part time work
Assistance returning to their careers after being a full time carer
Greater understanding and respect for all full time carers who have sacrificed everything to take care of their loved one and are able to return to work if they choose.
I was forced to resign the Friday before Christmas in 2014 due to a horrible boss, due to my mother’s dementia, this should never be allowed
Ageism alive and well, says one woman who applied for 200 jobs abc 22 Nov 2019
http://amp.abc.net.au/article/11724368
More carers’ leave may help Australians look after elderly parents and stay in work
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