"For most older Americans, care will come from unpaid family members or friends, who contributed...
Category: Sandwich Generation
The “sandwich generation” are people providing care for young kids and elders at the same time. Many of us have children with disabilities and other health issues, siblings with care needs, and multiple generations of elders needing various levels of care.
The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents
Randi Schofield tried her best to not dwell on all the ways her life changed, on the pieces of...
I Took Over My Father’s Finances at 25. The Lessons Were Hard-Won.
Six years ago, I took over my father’s finances. ... I was 25 and had just moved in with my...
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...
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...
The Care Crisis Isn’t What You Think
What my research participant made clear to me that day is that the lack of robust and accessible...
Sandwich Generation: How Do You Decide Whose Needs Come First?
Your parents need your help right now, and so do your adult kids. But what about saving for your...
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...
A Marriage Stressed by Obsessions and Compulsions
As soon as we learned a new baby was on the way, Mike’s anxiety became more than an occasional...
Unpaid Caregivers Were Already Struggling. It’s Only Gotten Worse During The Pandemic
Two-thirds of survey respondents who identified as unpaid caregivers said they experienced mental...
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...
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...
Pandemic piles more onto existing ‘double layer of exhaustion’ for caregivers of kids with complex needs
Jacqui Cameron was used to the toll of her son's daily care. Seizures, feeding tubes, his...
Making the Mental Load Visible
Too often we compartmentalize our caregiving — childcare, aged care, sick care, disabled care. Yet...
Fairplay at Home w/Eve Rodsky
This episode is part of a series about care. About the value of care. And we’re going to focus...
The Pandemic Offers a Chance to Reimagine Caregiving
Our current conversation about caregiving, driven by school shutdowns, Covid outbreaks in nursing...
Caregiving In The Time Of COVID
Alexis Baden-Meyer’s mornings are complicated. She wakes up around 6 a.m., ushering herself out of...
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
While COVID-19 has killed 1 out of every 800 African Americans, a toll that overwhelms the...
The Chaotic Circle of Caregiving
Since L.’s birth in 2014, I’ve gradually assumed more and more responsibility, parenting both up...
Sandwich Generation Faces Caregiving Challenges
Things were hard enough for Jennifer Galluzzo before the pandemic hit. Four years ago, the...
How Caregiving Became More Than Just a Women’s Issue
Even though women have always done most of the caregiving, both paid and unpaid, it’s never been...
Isolation and ‘impossible choices’: When caregiving goes into lockdown
Even before the coronavirus, caregiving had become Sade Dozan’s every day. About a year and a half...