Articles tagged: "Sandwich Generation"
1: 6 Tips for Sandwiched Boomers Planning Summer Staycations
This summer more and more families are vacationing close to home - planning staycations instead of taking to the road. Here are 6 tips to make your summer staycation memorable.
2: Nurturing Your Mom on Mother 's Day with More Than Chocolates
Sandwiched Boomers celebrate a meaningful Mother 's Day using these 6 tips.
3: Nurturing Your Mom On Mother 's Day With More Than Chocolates
Sending flowers, candy and greeting cards are de rigueur for mom on Mother 's Day but, as members of the Sandwich Generation, you recognize that what your aging mother really wants on her special day is to feel nurtured Ellie 's mother, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease, no longer recognized her
4: Top Ten Self-fullness Tips for Sandwiched Women
Sandwiched Generation women following these 10 tips can learn how to take better care of themselves.
5: Top Ten Self-Fullness Tips For Sandwiched Women
No need to look up "self-fullness" in the dictionary - you won't find it And it 's also not likely to be in the vocabulary of women who are pulled between their careers, children, parents, spouse or even grandchildren
6: The Politics Of Change And Sandwiched Boomers
The soaring rhetoric from presidential candidates has been about the concept of change - and the electorate is energized by the buzzword But is the idea of change really so new
7: Male Sandwiched Boomers: A New Trend in Caregiving
If you happen to be a Sandwiched Boomer, the following quietly growing trend may surprise you. The results of recent studies indicate that nearly 40% of close to 44 million unpaid caregivers for the elderly are male. The call to honor loved ones is becoming an emerging pattern of male behavior.
8: Sandwiched Boomers And The Valentines Gift Of Discourse
This Valentines Day, are you hoping that your sweetheart will finally write the love song you've been waiting to hear Or are you taking a more proactive stance - busy shopping for the language of love that is bound to communicate the depth of your true emotions
9: Conflict Resolution For Boomers And Media Culture
Have you noticed that, in our culture, slurs about gender, class, race and sex have become fairly commonplace and are often even seen as humorous by some Howard Stern, Ann Coulter, Jesse Jackson and Bill O'Reilly, to name a few well known pundits, have been busy playing the 'can you top this' game
10: Boomer Couples: Deepening Your Conversations About Serious Illness
As Baby Boomers continue to age, the rise in incidence of serious illness affects nearly every family - especially if you're a member of the Sandwich Generation When you or your spouse develops cancer, heart disease, stroke or another chronic illness, it can change every aspect of your lives together
11: Boomer Couples: Deepening Your Conversations about Serious Illness
Learn how to have more meaningful conversations with your partner after a serious illness.
12: How Sandwiched Boomers Can Help Their Parents Create A Legacy Of Meaning
As a Baby Boomer member of the Sandwich Generation, perhaps you have already had talks with your aging parents about their wills, beneficiaries, and advanced medical directives for hospital care But have you discussed an ethical will or the legacy of meaning they wish to leave behind
13: The Sandwich Generation And Their Parents' Tarnished Golden Years
Parents of Baby Boomers look toward their sixties, seventies and eighties as golden years, with the chance to enjoy the fruits of their labors But what happens when those days become tarnished gold
14: How To Create Special Family Vacations For Sandwiched Boomers
"Summertime and the living is easy" – so said George and Ira Gershwin There 's just something about the warm sun, blue skies and late evenings that makes us want to ease up, have a change of scenery and leave our day-to-day work world behind
15: New Year 's Resolutions For Sandwiched Boomers
Are you like the millions of Americans who, year after year, make New Year 's resolutions that they don't keep Have you made a vow to lose 25 pounds, exercise four times a week or save monthly for your retirement
16: Boomer Couples And Change: Understanding Your Relationship
Being comfortable in a relationship feels awfully good - but functioning on automatic pilot can get you into trouble. When reading the examples below, do you recognize any of these changes in your relationship? Look carefully at the emotions that surface when you step into new roles and give up the ones that have defined you in the past.
17: The Sandwich Generation and Their Parents' Tarnished Golden Years
Learn how to care for yourself and your aging parents when their golden years are tarnished. Use these seven tips to reduce Sandwich Generation stress.
18: How Observing Veterans Day Can Resonate for the Sandwich Generation
Learn from veterans how to relate to your family with gratitude, love and respect. Get community support and draw upon your own strength as you deal with Sandwich Generation issues of your own.
19: How Support from the Sandwich Generation Can Help Britney Spears
In any media frenzy, Britney Spears is at the top of the list when it comes to celebrities and controversy. Should we draw the line on America 's addiction to B-list bad girls when the best interests of their children are at stake? And if she continues to act irresponsibly, should her parents, likely members of the Sandwich Generation, step in to help out?
20: How the Sandwich Generation Can Help Their Parents Create a Legacy of Meaning
Learn how to help your aging parents write an ethical will to be passed on to the following generations. Read about the experiences of others in the Sandwich Generation and get started by following these four suggestions.
21: Baby Boomers as Grandparents: the Club Sandwich Generation
As the offspring of Baby Boomers marry and start their own families, the responsibilities of the Sandwich Generation grow. You're already in the middle of your family in flux - between growing children and aging parents. Now the sandwich adds another layer, the grandchildren. It 's sometimes
22: Boomer Women and the Changing Face of Retirement
As a Baby Boomer, are you in agreement with the results of an American Association of Retired Persons' position paper - that the definition of work in retirement will be uniquely yours? Fully 80% of those who responded to the survey expect to continue some type of work after they reach retirem
23: How Baby Boomer Can Feather Their Empty Nest
As your kidults begin to pack up for college, does the thought of creating a more grown-up nest sound good? Can you visualize more simplicity and less chaos? Think about what it would be like to clean out the drawers, give away the memorabilia your kids don't want, get rid of all the stuff th
24: How to Create More Intimacy with Your Valentine
February is perfect for cuddling, with the cold weather and longer nights. No wonder it 's known as the month for romance. But, as a member of the Sandwich Generation, does caring for your growing children and aging parents make you too tired to bring Cupid back into your intimate relationship
25: How to Inventory Your Personal Assets for 2007
Have you ever noticed how, at this time of year, there are lists and lists circulating? You can find a list of the 20 best films of 2006, the 10 worst dressed people, the 50 most interesting books. In addition to spending some of your spare time reading through these lists, how about taking s
26: How to Nourish the Sandwich That is You
The "Sandwich Generation" is a term that has now made it into the dictionary. It fits an increasing number of Boomer women whose reality includes being squeezed between the demands of growing children and the needs of aging parents. A study by AARP and the National Alliance for Care-giving ide
27: What the Sandwich Generation Can Bring to the Holiday Table
Are you wondering if your family dynamics during the holidays are going to scare off your son 's new in-laws? Welcoming his wife and her parents into the fold is another chapter in your family 's history. And integrating them into the holiday festivities has the potential for its' own complicati
