The model
Life|After® operates on a pay-per-employee model — meaning employers access the full program only when a cancer-surviving employee needs it. There is no retainer, no monthly fee, and no cost when the program is not actively in use.
The program is delivered entirely remotely, making it accessible for employers of any size, in any location. From a regional school district to a Fortune 500 HR team — the process is the same.
"The right support, at the right moment — without adding complexity to the employer's plate."
Employers are billed only for active cases. No retainer, no minimum commitment, no administrative overhead between cases.
The entire program is managed remotely — assessments, care coordination, specialist engagement, and employer reporting all happen without requiring on-site visits.
Life|After® is complementary to — not a replacement for — existing group health, disability, or EAP plans. It fills the return-to-work gap those programs leave open.
The process
Every Life|After® case follows the same structured framework — consistent, structured, and designed to give every employee the best possible chance of a successful return.
Getting started
When HR engages Life|After®, a dedicated care coordinator is assigned immediately. The coordinator works with the employee to understand where they are right now — what they've been through, what they're still managing, and what their role actually requires. That assessment drives everything that follows. The details of how we conduct it are part of the conversation when you reach out.
Building the support
Based on the assessment, the care coordinator assembles the right specialists from Life|After®'s nationwide network — addressing fatigue, cognitive changes, physical recovery, nutritional needs, and psychosocial adjustment. Every case is different. Every team reflects that. The coordinator manages all of it — the employer manages none of it.
The return itself
The care coordinator stays active throughout the transition — adjusting the plan as the employee's situation evolves, providing the employer with accommodation guidance as needed, and staying with the case until the path forward is clear. Every case closes differently. That conversation is best had directly.
The team behind every case
No single discipline can address the full complexity of cancer survivorship. Life|After® coordinates across the specialties each individual case requires — deployed remotely, managed centrally.
Central coordinator for every engagement
Psychosocial support & adjustment
Workstation & task accommodation
Energy management & recovery nutrition
Mobility, strength & pain management
Functional restoration & work conditioning
Getting survivors moving again — to manage side effects and support long-term recovery
Assembled case-by-case as needed
All specialists engaged remotely · Coordinated through a single care coordinator · Available nationwide
For the employer
Life|After® is designed to be low-burden for the employer. The care coordinator handles coordination — you receive regular updates and clear documentation, without being pulled into the clinical details of each case.
From first referral to case closure, the process is structured to protect the employer, support the employee, and produce a documented, defensible outcome.
One dedicated care coordinator handles all coordination — backed by senior oversight on every assessment. You are never managing multiple specialist relationships directly.
Employers receive clear, plain-language guidance on workplace accommodations and scheduling considerations — what the employee needs from the organization to support a successful return. Clinical details remain with the employee.
Care coordinator actions and accommodation recommendations are documented at every stage — giving the employer a clear, consistent record of the return-to-work process and what support was in place.
Life|After® works alongside your existing group health, disability, and EAP plans — not in competition with them.
Each case concludes with a formal closure summary — confirming the support provided, any ongoing accommodation recommendations, and that the structured transition period has concluded. Return-to-work status is determined by the employer and HR.
Caregiver support
An employee whose spouse, parent, or child is going through cancer treatment is carrying an invisible weight at work — every single day. The phone calls made from a desk. The hours spent researching side effects during lunch. The distraction that doesn't turn off between meetings. The exhaustion that no one at work can see. Caregivers are often more impacted at work than the patients themselves — and almost no one is looking for it. There is no formal support structure built around their role, no accommodations process, no one checking in. The research consistently shows the impact is larger than most organizations ever account for.
Life|After® extends to this situation in two directions. The specialist team — care coordinator, social worker, and the broader network — works directly with the person going through cancer to manage their side effects and journey. And that same access extends to the caregiver employee, giving them support, resources, and a structured outlet for what they're carrying.
The company chooses to activate this support. When they do, they're investing in both their employee and the person their employee loves — which is exactly the kind of organizational care that retention, morale, and productivity data consistently backs up.
Ask about caregiver supportThe full Life|After® specialist network — care coordinator, social worker, ergonomist, nutritionist, physical therapist, and others as needed — works directly with the survivor to manage side effects, navigate treatment, and build toward whatever their best path forward looks like.
The same care coordinator and specialist access extends to the employee supporting their loved one. Help navigating the medical system, managing their own emotional health, understanding what their loved one is experiencing, and maintaining their own functioning at work and at home.
The company opts in to activate caregiver support — a meaningful benefit decision that signals genuine organizational care. No administrative burden. No case management. Life|After® handles the coordination. The employer simply makes the call that their employee deserves support.
There is no formal leave structure built around their role, no accommodations process, no one checking in. The phone calls from the desk. The hours spent researching side effects during lunch. The mental load that never turns off between meetings. The employer absorbs all of it invisibly — and the research consistently shows the impact is larger than most organizations ever account for.
PMC · NCCN 2024 · Cancer Caregiver Productivity Loss Research
An add-on HR can offer
HR teams that bring Life|After® into their organization often want to go further — extending support beyond the survivor to the people around them. These add-on sessions give HR a ready-made resource to offer managers, supervisors, and teams: practical, plain-language guidance on how to show up well for a returning colleague.
No additional burden on HR. Just a resource your organization can offer — and that your returning survivor will benefit from immediately.
Delivered flexibly to fit your organization's schedule and structure.
Contact us to learn moreAdd-on service
A practical session HR can offer to managers and supervisors — giving them straightforward guidance on what a returning survivor may be managing, how to have supportive conversations, and how to handle common workplace situations with confidence. Managers appreciate having a clear framework. HR appreciates not fielding the questions afterward.
Delivered virtually or in person · Contact for details
Add-on service
A resource HR can offer to the returning employee's immediate team — giving coworkers practical, plain-language guidance on how to be present without making it awkward. Teams want to do the right thing. This gives them a clear, simple framework to do it — and takes the pressure off the returning survivor to educate the people around them.
Delivered virtually or in person · Contact for details
Add-on service
An optional session for organizational leadership and risk managers — helping align the broader team around the return-to-work process Life|After® is managing. Useful when leadership wants visibility into how the program works alongside existing benefit structures, or when internal communication around a return needs coordination support.
Delivered virtually or in person · Contact for details
Beyond cancer
Life|After® was built for cancer survivors — and the program's structure addresses something broader than any single diagnosis. The gap between ongoing treatment and a successful, productive return exists across a range of serious medical conditions.
Rooted in Tyler Ergonomics' two decades of return-to-work experience across complex medical cases, Life|After® also supports employees managing autoimmune conditions, stroke recovery, and other serious diagnoses where the path back to work requires the same coordinated, individualized approach.
If your employee is facing a life-altering diagnosis that isn't cancer — and you're wondering whether Life|After® can help — the answer is almost certainly yes. The framework is the same. The care is the same. The commitment to finding the best possible path forward is the same.
Lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's, and other autoimmune diseases create ongoing treatment demands and variable symptoms that standard return-to-work programs aren't built for. Life|After® meets employees where they are — not where a policy assumes they should be.
Stroke survivors returning to work face cognitive, physical, and emotional challenges that evolve unpredictably over time. A coordinated, specialist-supported return plan — adjusted as recovery progresses — gives them and their employer the best possible foundation.
Any diagnosis that significantly disrupts an employee's functional capacity and creates a gap between treatment and genuine workforce readiness is a candidate for Life|After® support. If you're unsure whether a situation fits — call us. We'll tell you honestly.
Get started
A brief call is all it takes to understand whether Life|After® is the right fit for your employees or your clients.
