Candace Dellacona
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Good Life Project · The Caregiving Conversation Everyone Postpones Until It's Too Late. · 6 Jul 2026
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In addition to meeting with people in the sandwich generation, I am one.
I think an important part of the dialogue around the sandwich generation is much more related to sort of who the person is as it relates to those they're caring for.
And the way that the lines have become incredibly blurred for the person who's sort of in the middle, in the sandwich.
It's a much deeper and greater issue than just the logistics of providing the care.
It's truly who you are while you're providing the care and the conflation between being a caregiver to perhaps a younger generation, your children or whomever your younger loved ones are, and the older generation, whether that's parents or in my case, an uncle, and trying to not lose yourself in the process.
And I think...
It is further complicated by the fact that not only is the sandwich generation member going through kind of an identity crisis over a period of time, all the people that they're caring for, they're also having to redefine who they are in very fundamental ways and deal with all of the feelings that go along with that.
The statistics are very sort of startling, as you point out.
But I think that what gets lost in the statistics is you're talking about generally a demographic, an age range.
I think the sandwich generation is really anyone that feels pushed and pulled between providing care to someone and
and not losing themselves in the process.
So for example, if you look at the actual demographics, it's most women in the middle 30s to their middle 50s.
But then if you take a look, for example, at a group of young professional athletes who in their family are the ones with the resources, right?
They also are in the sandwich generation because they are sort of sought after within their family unit to provide and share the money and those resources.
So I think we have to sort of expand that.
our idea of what the sandwich generation is.
It really kind of refers to a season in life.
For some people, it's a longer season.
For some, it's shorter.
But I also think it's important to allow yourself, if you don't fit into that cookie cutter category, that you can still feel the pressure and not have the same level of traditional, if you will, obligations.
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