Stuck between a rock and a hard place

THERE’S a sandwich out there, and no, it is not the kind that is filled with tenderly cooked chicken breast, slices of cheddar cheese, creamy avocados drizzled generously in honey mustard. Nope. It is, rather, the sandwich generation.

A term coined in the 1980s by social worker Dorothy Miller, “sandwich generation” describes a generation that is “sandwiched” between providing for both aging parents and children.