Elderly Paprents: Caregiving Challenges Of Sandwich Generation- A Study In Sivasagar District

Abstract

Sandwich generation is a generation of people typically in their thirties to fifties, responsible for both bringing up their own growing children and taking care of their own ageing parents which, it creates some challenges to the sandwich generation. There are many aspects like physical, financial, and emotional and time causes challenges to the sandwich generation. These challenges will be doubled in case of working couples. Working couples are again sandwiched between the needs of children, parents and workplaces. One hundred numbers of respondents have been selected from Sivasagar district of Assam by adopting stratified random sampling techniques. The majority of responders, according to the report, are in their middle years (40 to 50). Majority of respondents had completed upper secondary levels. The research indicates that the sandwich generation's major issues are emotional ones. The sandwich generation is burdened with a lot of work, including taking care of their ageing parents on top of their jobs, careers, and children. Caretakers must regularly chat with their parents for their mental well-being, schedule some leisure activities with them to keep them happy, and perform other things in order to keep their parents happy. Both sandwich generation workers and non-workers may experience emotional imbalance and mental stress as a result of these difficulties. The findings indicated that the physical, financial, and emotional issues faced by the sandwich generation are severe. Time factors were not statistically substantially changed by any of the variables, however. The findings revealed considerable differences between working and non-working women in terms of time, money, and physical characteristics. The emotional features of working and non-working women did not significantly differ. The Sandwich Generation is not a recent phenomenon, but it has received little attention. With an ageing population, there is a greater need for Sandwich Generation caregivers to be aware of available options.