Call You and Yours: Are you 'sandwiched' between caring for your parents and children?
Are you part of the 'sandwich generation' - the million or so people who are looking after their parents as well as their children?
They've been dubbed the Sandwich Generation - those who care for ageing parents while still looking after their own children at home. Reports suggest one in five middle-aged people are part of it and it's starting to define a new way of living. It's just been announced that Allison Pearson's hugely popular newspaper column, Sandwich Woman, is to become a novel.
On tomorrow's Call You and Yours, we'll be asking: How you cope with the sandwich of caring for both your elderly parents and younger children? We want to hear your stories of being in a so-called care "sandwich". How do you cope? What are the pressure points? What do you do and who do you turn to when it all goes wrong?
Email us on [email protected] and join Winifred Robinson tomorrow at quarter past twelve.
For advice related to caring, please contact Carers UK
Carers UK helpline: 0808 808 7777
[email protected].
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- Tue 14 Apr 201512:16BBC Radio 4
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