Sandwich Generation

The sandwich generation describes middle-aged adults who are caring for both their aging parents and their own children at the same time. It is not a specific generational cohort, such as the Baby Boomers, but a phenomenon that can affect anyone whose parents and children happen to need support simultaneously. The situation was recognized as increasingly common in the late twentieth century, as longer lifespans and later childbearing meant that mothers who had children later in life were more likely to still have frail, aging parents needing care of their own, in contrast to earlier generations who typically had children around age twenty while their own parents, then around forty, needed comparatively little support. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/