Sandwiched in Later Life: Consequences for Individuals’ Well-Being, Variation Across Welfare Regimes

Becoming sandwiched in later life: Consequences for individuals’ well-being and variation across welfare regimes

Marco Albertini, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Merril Silverstein, Aviad Tur-Sinai

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, October 2023

Merril Silverstein

Sociology Department

Aging Studies Institute

Aging

Child & Elder Care

Mental Health

United States

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

Merril Silverstein

The experience of being sandwiched between support obligations towards both aging parents and adult offspring is likely to become more common and more relevant. We aim at assessing the effect of demographic and social sandwiching on the psychological health and subjective well-being of individuals experiencing these transitions, and to what extent, these effects vary across welfare regimes.