The Most Surprising Stat About the Sandwich Generation with Care.com's Naaz Nichols

Naaz Nichols is Care.com's Chief Customer Experience Officer. She's also a sandwich generation caregiver — and that lived experience gives her the tools to fully understand what other caregivers truly need.In this episode, Naaz joins us to share the details of Care.com's first ever Sandwich Generation Report. She shares a statistic that may shock you.Naaz also gets deeply personal about her own experiences with sandwich generation caregiving.We discuss:How real-life caregiving makes you better at your job (even if your job doesn't involve serving caregivers)What it's really like to parent and care for aging parents under one roofWhy Naaz took a career pause (and came back to the workforce with an even richer professional perspective)How perfectionism isn't sustainable for sandwich generation caregiversWhat it really feels like to navigate the medical system as your parents ageTopics covered:Caregiving, career, career pause, Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer's disease, care policy, caregiver burnoutSend us Fan MailThanks for listening to The Millennial Sandwich! Don't forget to follow, subscribe and connect with us on social media Leave us a voice note! We'd love to hear from you: https://www.speakpipe.com/themillennialsandwich