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Long-term Care and the Sandwich Generation
Long-term care may be the 800 pound gorilla within the family room. I hear about it in the line at the supermarket, in the elevator, at the department store, at church and on videos. Everyone my age is facing it, and it isn't ours we are facing, today.
I am from the age group called the boomer or sandwich generation. Sandwich meaning we've responsibilities for multiple members of the family. However, we are not the first one to be confronted with this phenomenon, when you are boomers, we are possibly the first to add a name to this huge predicament.
Boomers have altered the paradigms that we address dilemmas in many arenas and I think we'll rewrite our understanding about this one.
Here are some of the problems.
Our wonderful healthcare system, good food and many modern conveniences have contributed to a life expectancy which is more than ever. Therefore during the last in our healthy and productive years, when we ought to be saving that last little bit of money we'll need later on, or paying down our mortgages, or recuperating from losses within the stock market, traveling or enjoying our grandchildren, many of us have parents who are still living, despite the fact that less strong because they once were, continue to be healthy. At the same time we have adult children who're building their own futures and families and need a little help occasionally.
While reflecting upon the previous generations and how they took care of one another, I came to the realization that our ancestors, along with living closer together, had businesses of their own, while most of us today have careers that take us for an office, factory, hospital or school building. Our grandparents were active participants within the free enterprise system owning farms, stores, ranches, or some other kind of business. The main reason so many of us are experiencing trouble, is the fact that we do not own our own businesses. Very few jobs offer flexibility of your time and put to permit involvement in multigenerational obligations and privileges.
That's the reason I began looking for a career that will permit me to work around my Type A personality requires and doing so round the needs of a multigenerational family.
What provided that chance to me?
It was the internet and having an internet business. Having an internet business gives flexibility of both some time and space to become active in the lives of the 92-year-old or perhaps a 6-year-old and every age in-between.
Building your personal business in internet marketing will permit you to be where you have to be when you need to become there along with being able to support yourself while doing so. Whatever product you're selling, working on-line opens many avenues of flexibility to you.
