The "Sandwich Generation"

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By Laura Knoy on Thursday, April 12, 2007.
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They are the ones in the Granite State who are caught in the middle. Parents who also need to care for their children and their aging parents. They are called the "sandwich generation". As more of an aging population moves to... or back to New Hampshire to be close to their families, what is the state doing to possibly prepare and aid them?


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  • Lisa Morris, Executive Director for ServiceLink Resource Center of Belknap County
  • Sheila Zakre, a Concord attorney for seniors and people with disabilities who now takes care of her three children and her elderly mother
  • Ida Keir, insurance broker specializing in long-term care insruance who is now taking care of her 94 year old mother. She has three older children, including two in college.

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