Candace Dellacona
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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Good Life Project · The Caregiving Conversation Everyone Postpones Until It's Too Late. · 6 Jul 2026
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What I see most often when people come into my office is the new sort of introduction to
Thank you so much for having me.
And life as the sandwich generation member knows it changes significantly, sometimes because the older generation could have been helping them raise their children or provide childcare or provide the great advice.
And perhaps they're not in a position anymore to provide that advice.
It's exactly right.
I mean, if you look at sort of what's going on in our economy, the cost of childcare is expensive, as it should be, right?
And often people look to grandparents to fill that role.
And so if a grandparent is providing the help that's needed that would otherwise have to be paid for, and now all of a sudden the grandparent can both not help you and also need support
care themselves, it can really feel like you've been walloped.
I think, yes, we absolutely see it.
And I think what's happening with our generation is that we're not planning to
for taking on the added responsibility of caregiving.
Because most of us don't start that conversation with our aging loved one until something's happened, until there's some kind of trigger.
So all these other life events happen
having a baby, buying your first house, these are all things we plan for.
I don't know if it's because it's our American culture where we don't focus necessarily on aging and there's such a priority and a celebration of youth and new life and all of those things that we are sort of ignoring or willfully and blindly going into this phase in our life that can be challenging and expensive, but the conversations are not happening at the rate they should.
I want to start by saying it is different for everyone.
Your season of the sandwich is not going to be the same as mine.
However, I think one of the things that I always tell my peers going through it or those who listen to my podcast is.
You have to first identify yourself as a caregiver.
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