From BusinessWeek:

Over the past few years, American businesses have started offering support to workers who care for family members with disabilities. It’s a strategy that pays business dividends: Employers see less absenteeism and lost productivity when workers don’t have to take time off to oversee care for their loved ones.

In what have become the latest benefit programs, companies including PepsiCo, KPMG, JPMorgan Chase, and Northrop Grumman are offering services that range from parent networks to Web seminars to meetings with financial planners and educational consultants. In addition, a growing crop of advisers is emerging to guide families through the financial, medical, and educational labyrinth.

“There is no national network to tap to get information, so private industry is stepping in to fill the gap,” says Charlie Hammerman, president of the Albertson (N.Y.)-based Disability Opportunity Fund, an investment and financial-services firm focused on special needs.

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