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• Guilt, worry, resentment: how the ‘club sandwich’ generation juggles caring for parents, children and grandparents

  13-10-2024 13:00
  With people surviving longer and with greater infirmity, the pressures on adults living among three other generations are increasingLike the doctor in a corny joke, the study published last week by the Journals of Gerontology had some good news and some bad news.The good news, say researchers from University College London (UCL) and Oxford University, is that people born in the 1940s and 1950s are living longer than their parents. The bad news is that they are more likely to be ill. Continue rea
  
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• The Care Dilemma by David Goodhart review – a flawed study of family life

  13-10-2024 08:00
  
  The Road to Somewhere author argues that the liberating impact of feminism has harmed our children in a book shot through with claims that don’t stand up to scrutinyIt was mostly in the small hours that I first read David Goodhart’s new book on caring. By coincidence, it arrived as I was trying to look after my dying father at one end of the country and my own family at the other, while simultaneously attempting to work. Well, that’s life: there are millions of us in the same
  
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