The Sandwich Years - Practical guidance for women caring for everyone at once

Nobody warned me I'd be feeding my mother and baby at the same time.

I sat between them in the care home, a toddler on one side, my mum with dementia on the other, and I spoon-fed them both. That image is the clearest summary I have of what the Sandwich Generation actually looks like. Not a metaphor. Just a normal day at my mother’s care home.  If you are somewhere in that sandwich right now, holding a small child in one arm and your parent's entire life in the other, this guide is the one I wish had existed when I was in the middle of it. Seven steps, in order, with exact scripts and real numbers: how to have the conversation your family is avoiding, how to get Lasting Power of Attorney before it's too late, how to navigate the driving argument without destroying your relationship, how to find care you can actually afford, and how to build a system that doesn't collapse the moment you can't be in two places at once. Written by someone who lived it, not someone who researched it.

Unpaid sandwich carers provide an estimated £162 billion worth of care to the UK economy each year. The average carer spends £12,000 of their own money over their caring years. Most never claim the benefits they are entitled to. - Carers UK, State of Caring Report

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