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The midlife struggle of parent care

‘I just wanted it to be over’: The midlife struggle of caring for parents and kids

When Clare Jefferies became a mother in her thirties, she never imagined she’d also become the one responsible for the care of her sixtysomething parents. She tells Radhika Sanghani how it felt to become one of the UK’s 1.4 million ‘sandwich carers’ – and why she’s written a book all about it

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