{"id":274,"date":"2021-11-19T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.prophetpulse1.wpenginepowered.com\/?post_type=ressource&#038;p=274"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:35:01","slug":"how-to-support-employees-living-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"ressource","link":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/resources\/how-to-support-employees-living-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to support employees living with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/workingwithcancer.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">around 900,000 people of working age are living with cancer? This number is expected to increase to 1,150,00 by 2030<\/a>. To employers, this might come as a surprise, especially since many cancer patients and survivors remain active at work before, during, and after cancer treatment. Employers can \u2014 and should be \u2014 prepared to help employees with cancer throughout the entire journey from diagnosis to recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More people are living with a chronic condition than ever before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Approximately&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6214883\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1 in 3 people worldwide suffer from multiple chronic conditions<\/a>. Being diagnosed with a chronic disease is a life-altering event, but it doesn\u2019t have to be the end of a person\u2019s career. Continuing to work whilst having cancer is of course dependent on the severity of each person\u2019s condition. For many, working, allows them to access help and support from employers whilst maintaining personal independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Strategies that support employees with cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help those who continue to work, it\u2019s critical that employers offer support to employees during this extremely difficult time. Aside from providing an\u00a0employee wellbeing programme\u00a0that promotes preventive measures like health assessments and\u00a0healthy lifestyle changes\u00a0, employers should offer and assist in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flexible work schedules to accommodate regular appointments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providing a leave of absence that guarantees the option to return to work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guidance for sharing the news with colleagues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, employers still have some work to do to ensure employees with cancer or other chronic conditions are truly supported in the workplace. According to an&nbsp;, respondents felt that their companies still needed to improve in the following areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/contact-us\/\">Get in touch today to discover how Personify Health can help you support your workforce.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":275,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"ressource_category":[14],"ressource_tag":[],"audience":[],"solution":[],"partner_type":[],"class_list":["post-274","ressource","type-ressource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ressource_category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ressource\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ressource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ressource"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ressource\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ressource_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ressource_category?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"ressource_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ressource_tag?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"solution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/solution?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"partner_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personifyhealth.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner_type?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}