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Long Term Care and the Sandwich Generation

Long-term care is the 800 pound gorilla in the living room. I learn about it within the line in the supermarket, within the elevator, at the mall, at church as well as on videos. Everyone my age is facing it, and it isn't ours we are facing, today.

I am of the age bracket called the boomer or sandwich generation. Sandwich meaning we have responsibilities for multiple members of the family. However, we're not the first one to be confronted with this phenomenon, but being boomers, we are probably the first to add a reputation for this huge predicament.

Boomers have altered the paradigms that we address dilemmas in many arenas and i believe we will rewrite our understanding about this one.

Here are some from the problems.

Our wonderful health care system, good food and many modern conveniences have contributed to a life expectancy that is more than ever. Therefore during the last of our healthy and productive years, whenever we should be saving that last bit of money we will need in the future, or paying off our mortgages, or recuperating from losses in the stock exchange, traveling or enjoying our grandchildren, a lot of us have parents who're living, despite the fact that less strong as they were in the past, continue to be healthy. At the same time we've adult children who're building their very own futures and families and want a little help now and then.

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While reflecting upon the previous generations and just how they took care of one another, I came to the realization our ancestors, in addition to living closer together, had businesses of their own, some of us today have careers that take us for an office, factory, hospital or school building. Our grandparents were active participants in the free enterprise system owning farms, stores, ranches, as well as other type of business. The reason so many of us are having trouble, is the fact that we do not own our very own businesses. Not many jobs offer flexibility of time and place to permit involvement in multigenerational obligations and privileges.

That is why I started searching for a career that will permit me to work as much as my Type A personality requires and doing so round the needs of the multigenerational family.

What provided that opportunity to me?

It had been the web and achieving an online business. Through an online business gives flexibility of both time and space to become active in the lives of the 92-year-old or perhaps a 6-year-old and each age in-between.

Building your personal business advertising online will grant you to be where you need to be when you really need to be there along with having the ability to support yourself while doing this. Whatever product you're selling, working on-line opens many avenues of flexibility to you.