The Sandwich Generation (story of one challenged family)

[Guest guest]

This will be of most interest to those of you sandwiched between

parents and children, taking care of both.

Tonight I watched two online videos of 18 months of life in the

sandwich generation, where a couple is caring for the wife's father

(with dementia) and their two children. Both videos are worthwhile

but if you only watched one I'd vote for the second video.

Robin

First video: (about 11 minutes)

http://mediastorm.org/0009.htm?bcpid=570328413 & bclid=525671331 & bctid=151750379

Second video: (about 15 minutes)

http://assets.aarp.org/external_sites/caregiving/multimedia/LifeWithHerbie.html

Short news story about this family: (New York Times 7/1/08)

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/coming-home-for-herbie/

This contains links to the two videos.