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Caregiving: Sandwich Generation

According to the Pew Research Center, over one in eight Americans age 40 to 60 is in what’s called the "sandwich generation," meaning they’re raising children and caring for an aging parent. Living in the squeeze of the sandwich generation has lots of consequences both for individual families and society as a whole.

In our continuing Be Well series on Caregving, ideastream’s Kay Colby shares the ups and downs of one family in Summit county.