Support Systers, LLC -- Our Company

Support Systers has forged strategic partnerships and relationships with hospital systems, businesses, organizations and communities through the development of programs based upon our Patient and Family services.

These programs are designed to complement and enhance the interests and goals of our partners who share our desire to improve the quality of health care for patients while dramatically reducing the physical and emotional strains on patients and their families.

Please contact us to discuss how your business or organization may benefit from our services and how you can be a part of the future of health care.

Building the case for a new brand of care...

Burden on families

• Approximately 22 million families (nearly 1 in 4) provide some form of assistance to an elder (NY Times)

• Baby boomers will end up spending 17 years caring for a child and 18 years caring for an aging parent (Star-Tribune of the Twin Cities Minneapolis-St. Paul)

• Approximately 30% of caregivers (7 million) live an hour or more in travel time from the person to whom they provide oversight or care (Natl. Council on Aging)

• Caregivers involved in elder care currently spend $2 billion per month out of pocket for long-term care and services (USA Today)

Burden on businesses and corporations

• Corporate America is estimated to lose up to $29 billion (direct and indirect costs) per year in employee productivity from the approximately 14.4 million employees (one-eighth of the workforce) working and providing care to an elder (Washington Post)

• 42% of employees expect to assume elder care duties within the next five years (Wall Street Journal)

• 16% of employees who work full-time eventually leave their jobs due to elder care-giving responsibilities (San Diego Daily Transcript)

Aging America

• The number of Americans age 65 and above will increase from 34 million to over 70 million in the next 30 years (US Bureau of the Census Data, 1996)

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