Without the right to rest: who are the women of the “sandwich generation” and how can they not go crazy

How to maintain your own health when a teenager and mother and father are in critical condition?

Elena Zdravomyslova, professor at the EUSP Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, gave some recommendations. In a difficult situation, it is important for a representative of the “sandwich generation” to decide how the elderly relative will be cared for, taking into account the capabilities of the family. Like living together or apart?
As a rule, those who did not come together feel healthier, because it is emotionally very difficult to live with a sick, albeit beloved, person. For aged parents, continuing to live at home is also more comfortable, cozier, easier. Many mothers and fathers, according to surveys, did not want to move in with their children for various reasons.

If material resources allow, then a nurse will help with the parents. There are also boarding houses of a decent standard, in which mothers and fathers in need of care can be taken care of better than at home. True, in practice it is often necessary to go through bureaucratic hell in order to arrange a boarding house.