Check out the latest roundup of Sandwich Generation news items and resources to help those all of us juggling the multigenerational caregiving issues in our family:
The Sandwich Generation Issues
Everything Arizona recommends, "The sandwich generation: Caring for yourself while caring for aging parents"
And check out this interesting conclusion from North Shore News in "Modern family open to change - New census stats suggest units anything but traditional."What is shared in common here is that seniors, many of whom are facing their own health challenges, are in the role of providing care to other seniors." Click here to read the full article.
ElderCare
#ElderCareChat 10/17/12 Recap: Emergency Preparedness
Seniors For Living also has an article about dealing with macular degeneration and assisted living. Very interesting for any of us with aging parents dealing with either or both of these situations.
Redefining Medicine With Apps and iPads
Elderly Who Adopt New Technology Are More Confident and Healthy : Study
Grandparents and Grandkids
It's a LEGOs link week for all of us grandparents. Check out these great sites to help all of us grandparents with LEGO-lover grandkids:
- Cool and Easy to Build Lego Projects
- Christmas LEGO projects
- Brickset – A great website all about everything LEGOs, including info about Monthly Mini Model Build
- LEGO nativity set made by a child
- Another LEGO nativity set from Dr. Vegetable
I gotta say, I really appreciate the great resources and news available online for all of us boomers and seniors in the Sandwich Generation! These roundups are a regular part of SandwichINK, along with the tips and info I share at Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and G+, so be sure to follow me there and…
Kaye
P.S. Thank you so much for your comments. I appreciate them very much and read each one. I also do my best to reply to them all but, as you can imagine, there are times (many times, lately :) ) when caregiving needs do not allow for that. Thank you for your patience and your sweet comments.
