Pittsburgh Baby Boomers Raising Children While Helping Their Aging Parents are Called the “Sandwich Generation”
When it becomes clear that your older parent can no longer cook, drive, or live alone, you are in a position to help.
If you have a family and job of your own, however, it may be difficult to find the time needed to be a caregiver to both a parent and children.
According the Journal Sentinel, a “growing numbers of Americans face the immense and often overwhelming challenge of caring for an aging parent or other loved one, a burden that will skyrocket as 76 million baby boomers move into their 80s and need help coping with dementia, cancer, heart disease or just plain frailty and old age.”Caring for an aging parent is not easy. “Half of the 35 million family caregivers who now assist older adults have full-time jobs. Families are more geographically dispersed. Adult children are squeezed between raising their own families and managing a dizzying array of housing needs, health care, insurance, finances and supportive services for their elders.”
If you need help caring for an elderly parent and your children, BrightStar Care of Pittsburgh SW is the right choice. We provide both in home care for seniors and children.
To learn more about our home care and support services for Pittsburgh “Sandwich Generation” families, please visit our website.
Source: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2018/08/03/invisible-workforce-caregivers-wearing-out-boomers-age/879214002/