Retirement, or Mister Toad’s Wild Ride
Have you ever ridden Mister Toad’s Wild Ride? It’s just a crazy, madcap, jerky Disney World ride through a made-up maze of insanity. I have used this ride as a life metaphor many times...
Category: caregivers
The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Those Who are Chronically in Need
This is the third part in a series of articles for those of us who are in the “Sandwich Generation,” somewhere between the elderly and the young adults, and caring for both. We’ve reared...
The Sandwich Generation: 6 Ways to Take Care of Caregivers
One of the difficult aspects of being in the Sandwich Generation, is finding ourselves being pulled to care for both aging parents and adult children who parent our grandchildren. This becomes doubly difficult when...
The Sandwich Generation: 6 Steps for Taking Care of You
As empty nesters, we find ourselves increasingly in the “Sandwich Generation.” We have elderly parents who need our help navigating through memory loss, housing changes, coping with the death of spouse/friends/loved ones, and finding...
