World Menopause Day: Key resources for your Clients and their employees
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World Menopause Day is October 18. It’s a timely opportunity to help Clients start conversations about women’s health, workplace inclusion and the role their benefits plan can play in supporting employees. Have you talked to your Clients about these tools that are available? Set a meeting date soon to discuss these important resources for their employees.
Resources to support Client conversations
- Women's Health Toolkit – includes dedicated menopause section with research-backed findings and educational materials
- Designed for Health report: Focus on women's health - emerging trends, effective supports – explores emerging trends and how group plans can provide effective support.
- The Gender Health Gap research – direct insights from Canadian women experiencing menopause and their workplace support needs.
- Working together to support women's health (Bright Paper report) – guidance on creating menopause-inclusive policies and supportive culture.
- Menopause Inclusive Playbook – practical five-step guide developed with the Menopause Foundation of Canada for actionable strategies.
- Sun Life Virtual Care, by Dialogue* (formerly known as Lumino Health Virtual Care, by Dialogue). Women can get dedicated menopause support through this program at no additional cost to plan sponsors.
These resources can help you position women’s health as a business issue for Clients – linking employee wellbeing, inclusion, productivity and the value of a thoughtful benefits strategy.
We’ll share this with Plan sponsors in a Focus Update on October 8, 2026.
Questions? We’re here to help.
Please contact your Sun Life Group Benefits representative.
*Dialogue is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada operating as a stand-alone entity. All representations about the services of Sun life Virtual Care, by Dialogue are those of Dialogue, Inc. and not Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada cannot guarantee the availability of the services and reserves the right to cancel the services with notice.