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Beginning April 17, NPR will broadcast a series following the lives of three different families, providing intimate insight into the complexities and challenges of being a caregiver to two generations.
The clock is ticking. We need a fully-funded, coordinated national effort against dementia or we face big troubles ahead
In 1982, my beloved fell, broke her hip and ended up in a nursing home for rehabilitation. She never got out of that nursing home because of the "chemical restraints" that were administered to her.
Everyone has something to give. No matter what caregiving shoes you're in, find a way to embrace and engage the strengths within your family circle, and don't be afraid to put your kids to work.
When my 91-year-old father lay dying in a Veterans Administration hospital on the other side of the continent, no one told me that I "should go," that I "had to go," or even that wanting to go was a reasonable idea.
A peek into a sandwich generation boomer's fridge says it all: Ensure milkshakes, a pack of juice boxes, a bottle of wine and food for an army -- certainly not the signs of an empty-nest household.
Are you a member of the "Sandwich Generation?" Have you been placed in the position of "parenting" your aging parents while raising your own children? To keep calm and maintain your sanity, here are 3 things you can do to bring peace to your Thanksgiving festivities.
My father had a stroke over a week ago, and his life changed in a flash, as did mine. Overnight, I became acutely aware of the challenges of being a later in life mother caring for a young child and senior father.
It's been said that life begins at 50--that magic crossroad in life when men and women supposedly can begin to turn their attention away from the resp...
No wonder so many people caught in this situation have trouble paying their bills. If you are primary caregiver for parents or are supporting them financially, here are a few ideas that may help you keep your own finances on track.
This sense of one sibling being favored over another often comes to the fore in its ugliest form when a parent is dying, and there are adult children, and there have been no communications by the parents about their wishes.
One of the Ten Commandments is to "obey" our parents. Well, what happens when we think that it is not in their best interest to continue living where they are living or we feel it is unsafe, and they disagree with us?
I'm stuck between these two generations: the one starting out, the other winding down. So I'll hang on to today, as best I can. It's the only thing anyone can really do.
Many of us in mid-life are finding ourselves sandwiched between generations and trying to cope. We're starting families later, raising grandchildren and caring for seniors living into their 90s.
Several months ago, before she died, I found a picture of my mother and myself. In this picture, the camera loved us both. If I take a piece of paper and cover parts of our faces, I see that I have her mouth.
They call us the sandwich generation. Like many, I am pressed in the white-hot heat between parenting four children and caregiving for my aging parents. Sandwich? Phooey. I say we are the panini generation.
A career is no longer like a ladder; it's like a jungle gym....
