The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others
The following article is from Blue Cross/Blue Shield Insurance. It describes the challenges boomers have while taking care of aging parents and suggests self-care strategies that while obvious are helpful to be reminded of.
Are you caring for both your children and your parents? Might you find yourself in that situation soon? If so, you’re one of a growing number of people in the “sandwich generation” who find themselves lending financial and other support to generations both above and below. As our country’s population grows and finding work continues to be a challenge for young people, more and more Americans will become part of the sandwich generation and be depended on by both parents and children. To put this into perspective, around the beginning of the 20th century, only 7 percent of people in their sixties had one living parent. Nowadays, that percentage has jumped up to 50 percent. On top of that number, around 52 percent of young adults still live at home with their parents.Read More »The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others