In March 2020, Lori traveled to Florida to help Audrey move into an assisted living facility, a...
Category: Generation X
Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, is in peak sandwich generation years: kids at home, with increasing eldercare responsibilities. They’re also taking on increasing responsibilities for disabled siblings and spouses.
Sharing Duties as a Family Caregiver Is Like Losing a Security Blanket
"My husband is a remarkable caregiver. He knows how to talk to ER doctors and advocate for Ladybug...
Careers and Caregiving: An impossible juggling act?
My story speaks to the structural constraints on faculty members in “the sandwich generation” and...
The Mental Load of Being a Sandwich Generation Caregiver
Writer and musician Tanuja Desai-Hidier lives in a multigenerational home in Maine with her aging...
Tethered to a ventilator for most of his life, how Ryan Lythall found his voice
His story? When Lythall was six-months-old, his mother, Irene, rushed him to CHEO where he had an...
Working Women, Aging Parents: Some Advice For Caregiving Daughters
Millions of women in this country are caring for an aging parent or parents and for many, it’s not...
‘It is all about raising the profile of carers’
It was early evening, and Rebekah Zammett was about to leave her north Oxfordshire home to work a...
Generation X Volunteers Want to Help You, and One Day Themselves, Age at Home
Ms. McWhinney-Morse was in her mid-60s when she and a handful of others her age started laying the...
Queen Latifah On Being Her Mom’s Caregiver: ‘I Would Just Want to Fall Apart’
On top of her work in entertainment, she’s also held the role of caregiver. In 2018, Latifah lost...
How to Coordinate a Parent’s Care With Siblings
When it becomes clear that an aging parent needs caregiving, it’s uncharted territory for adult...
What the Conversation Around the “Great Resignation” Leaves Out
Since the beginning of the pandemic, one in five health care workers has left their job. They’ve...
When a Diagnosis Demands a Long-Term Money Strategy
A diagnosis may be alarming enough, but equally frightening can be the costs for medical...
The Art of Disability Parenting
Robert has cerebral palsy, and he has weathered multiple complications in his seven years. I don’t...
Churn
Nobody just “stops by” this house. My mother won’t let anyone she knows come near the outside,...
Should I Help My Aging, Ailing Dad Access His Toxic Web Feed?
My father and I have not been especially close for all of my adult life because of his inability...
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly
Some older adults have diligently prepared for their future. They purchased long-term care...
Children With Disabilities Need Sex Ed Too
Currently, only three states in the country explicitly include special ed students in their sex-ed...
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Eve turned 14, had a growth spurt, began to feel tired often, talk to us less, and took longer to...
Remember?
We are four years into his dementia. The professionals call this slow descent The journey, but I...
Why Are Boomer Parents Always Withholding Important Family News?
The only time Taylor has ever felt her mother withheld information from her was when doctors found...
Rosie Could Be a Riveter Only Because of a Care Economy. Where Is Ours?
Infrastructure “of a country, society, or organization,” according to the Collins Dictionary,...
The Crushing Weight of ‘Sandwich Caregiving’
When Sade Dozan discovered she was pregnant, her parents moved closer, with the intention of...
I lost my son six months ago
Fourteen years ago, I remember taking my son home from the NICU. The way the world currently...
Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and Jane Eyre
Tired and on edge, I was worried by rumblings from my husband Brad’s doctors that they might send...