More than a third of the workforce has at least one chronic illness. That’s right. One in three!

Chronic health conditions are a trillion-dollar productivity problem. What is your organization doing to help engage key workers and managers who may be secretly struggling with a chronic illness? Some of the articles below can get you started. Do not forget to signup to our mailing list so that you can get our free white-paper on chronic illness and productivity. All the most important and most recent statistics are here to build your business case for better engaging workers with chronic health conditions.

Three reasons your wellness program isn’t working as well as it could

December 1, 2011

Why wellness programs don’t work for the people who need them most – those with chronic illness and episodic disabilities.

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Majority affected by chronic disease – new report

August 22, 2011

More than 50% of Americans and Canadians are affected by chronic disease Just last week, researchers from the Washington-based Deloitte Center for Health Solutions released the results of an international survey which showed that the majority of both Canadians and Americans have at least one chronic health condition. Fifty-five percent of people in the U.S. [...]

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Chronic Illness and lost productivity – video

July 26, 2011

Productivity loss due to chronic illness in the workplace is more than a trillion dollars a year in the U.S. alone. That about 7% of Gross Domestic Product. Imagine 7% of all the goods and services your organization produces in a year – gone! That is a lot of money being lost by each and every business every day. Yet few organizations have a strategy to better engage the one-third of their workforce who have a chronic health condition.

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What are our assumptions about illness?

June 28, 2011

Chronic illness differs from our traditional views of illness in many ways. In this short clip from the presentation Thriving in the Age of Chronic Illness, I talk about these differences and why they are important.

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Workplace flexibility better than benefit cuts

June 2, 2011

Building a foundation where people with unpredictable and long term illness can work and be productive should be a higher priority than simply slashing disability benefits.

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Who needs coaching? Often those we least suspect

May 22, 2011

For professional coaching to succeed as an industry, coaches have to reach out to people who may not immediately see the value that coaches have to offer

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Organizations can increase productivity by understanding illness

May 17, 2011

(MISSISSAUGA, ONT, May 17, 2011) – Organizations can significantly increase productivity simply by understanding and better engaging workers with long-term health conditions says a prominent chronic illness coach. “For the first time in history, long term illnesses such as arthritis, heart disease and depression have become the major health threat across the globe. Yet our [...]

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Smart enough to go back to work?

March 10, 2011

An area of disability management that is sometimes forgotten is the impact that both physical illness and medication have on our brain. Many of us in North America are now part of the knowledge economy where our value is in our ability to think clearly and strategically, find creative and innovative solutions, and handle difficult [...]

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Mississauga News Article – Cost of Chronic Illness Huge for Business

January 29, 2011

Apple chief executive officer Steve Job’s pending leave of absence – his second in the past few years – should be a wake-up call to businesses about the impact chronic illness

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The cost of chronic illness is huge but mostly hidden

January 11, 2011

This week, I continue my series on the Patient’s Voice survey – one of the newest studies on chronic illness in the workplace Show me the money As human beings we tend to react to stimuli that has the most immediate impact on us. Hence, it is easier to get a person to be concerned [...]

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