Unit_5Sandwich Generation
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Or: 脱卸
e.g. Sandy was unable to discharge the power and duties of his office.
Or: let out (gas, liquid,etc.) 排出
e.g. The Huangpu River discharges itself into the sea.
open up: The department store is opening up a
new branch in the town.
Q3: Give the definition of sandwich generation according to what you have learned from the article.
When the old patients no longer need intensive care in a hospital, but they are not healthy enough to go home by themselves, often no family available in the city will provide lodgings for them.
Q2: Why did Calgary’s Foothills Hospital call Anne? Did she agree to do as the hospital required? Why?
Her mother is going to be discharged from the hospital. The hospital wanted Anne to care for her mother because her mother was still forgetful and could not take care of herself.
Sandwich Generation
Patricia Chrisholm
Introduction
The Sandwich Generation refers to those people who provide care for both their parents and their own children, often holding a job in the United States and Canada.
Q1: In the first paragraph, the author presents the theme she is going to discuss. What is it?
The problem that the sandwich generation is faced with struggling to care of both their children and their elders while having a job themselves.
Because family members are often widely separated geographically owing to high job mobility in Canada.
7. When a hospital’s elderly patients no longer require acute care, but are not well enough to go home alone, there is often no family in the city to take them in.
Unassisted functions in the sentence as a subject complement.
e.g. Ms. Brown stared at him speechless for a moment.
The sun rises red.
4. But she was still forgetful and clearly in no condition to move back into her own house while she waited for a bed to open up in a nursing home. But she was still likely to forget things and was obviously too weak to live alone in her own house while she waited for a bed to become available in a nursing home. A nursing home refers to a private or residential home, esp. for old people.
Q6: What is Calgary’s Foothills hospital’s attitude when a patient has no one to take care of him?
d. Took more care of elderly.
5. hold down: keep (a job); keep at a low level; limit the freedom of
e.g. Jim has not held down a job for more than one year.
Or: settle, shoot 清偿，射击
2. Irene, Anne’s 84-year-old mother, had been in acute care since she suffered a series of small strokes in March.
Anne’s mother, Irene, who was 84 years old, has been under intensive care since she had a few small stroke in March.
move in: go to live together with
e.g. He fell in love with Jane and eventually moved in with her.
Q5: Why is there often no family in the city to take elderly parents in when those who were in acute care are well enough to leave the hospital?
1. …her mother was about to be discharged:… her mother would soon be allowed to leave (the hospital).
Discharge v: allow to leave; dismiss 允许离开
e.g. The soldier was wounded and honorably discharged.
their own jobs.
out to work.
c. Parents of an average c. Parents of an average
family work 65-80 hours family worked 40-45
a less care of their their own own elderly.
In this text, the author first tells a story to introduce the issue. Then she analyzes the causes of the problems that Sandwich Generation is faced with. Next, more specific examples are given to further explain problems connected with the elder care. And the author also gives us one example to show that some families can deal with the elder care well. Finally, she draws the conclusion.
Yes, she finally agreed to take her mother when the hospital promised to help arrange some home care. “That” refers to “the hospitals” contacting her. Her problem was that she was unable to look after her old mother because she was holding down a job herself and she had to take care of her own children.
The generation which struggles to care for both their children and their elders, often while holding down a job as well.
Q4: Households nowadays are profoundly changed from previous generations. What are the differences between the current generation and previous generation?
3. …she was well enough to feed herself and was beginning to walk unassisted.
… she was so well that she could eat by herself and was beginning to walk without help .
Although statistics indicate that the percentage of elderly people living with their children is becoming smaller, those who move in to stay with their children enter families which are totally different fron those of previous generation.
The municipal government has taken effective measures to hold prices down.
6. Although statistics show that the proportion of seniors living with their children is decreasing, those who do move in with their children enter hoseholds profoundly changed from previous generations.
Current
Previous
a. Seniors have few
a. Seniors had more
members who can
children and fewer
share the burden.
children to share
the burden.
b. Many daughters have b. Women seldom went
e.g. Sandy was unable to discharge the power and duties of his office.
Or: let out (gas, liquid,etc.) 排出
e.g. The Huangpu River discharges itself into the sea.
open up: The department store is opening up a
new branch in the town.
Q3: Give the definition of sandwich generation according to what you have learned from the article.
When the old patients no longer need intensive care in a hospital, but they are not healthy enough to go home by themselves, often no family available in the city will provide lodgings for them.
Q2: Why did Calgary’s Foothills Hospital call Anne? Did she agree to do as the hospital required? Why?
Her mother is going to be discharged from the hospital. The hospital wanted Anne to care for her mother because her mother was still forgetful and could not take care of herself.
Sandwich Generation
Patricia Chrisholm
Introduction
The Sandwich Generation refers to those people who provide care for both their parents and their own children, often holding a job in the United States and Canada.
Q1: In the first paragraph, the author presents the theme she is going to discuss. What is it?
The problem that the sandwich generation is faced with struggling to care of both their children and their elders while having a job themselves.
Because family members are often widely separated geographically owing to high job mobility in Canada.
7. When a hospital’s elderly patients no longer require acute care, but are not well enough to go home alone, there is often no family in the city to take them in.
Unassisted functions in the sentence as a subject complement.
e.g. Ms. Brown stared at him speechless for a moment.
The sun rises red.
4. But she was still forgetful and clearly in no condition to move back into her own house while she waited for a bed to open up in a nursing home. But she was still likely to forget things and was obviously too weak to live alone in her own house while she waited for a bed to become available in a nursing home. A nursing home refers to a private or residential home, esp. for old people.
Q6: What is Calgary’s Foothills hospital’s attitude when a patient has no one to take care of him?
d. Took more care of elderly.
5. hold down: keep (a job); keep at a low level; limit the freedom of
e.g. Jim has not held down a job for more than one year.
Or: settle, shoot 清偿，射击
2. Irene, Anne’s 84-year-old mother, had been in acute care since she suffered a series of small strokes in March.
Anne’s mother, Irene, who was 84 years old, has been under intensive care since she had a few small stroke in March.
move in: go to live together with
e.g. He fell in love with Jane and eventually moved in with her.
Q5: Why is there often no family in the city to take elderly parents in when those who were in acute care are well enough to leave the hospital?
1. …her mother was about to be discharged:… her mother would soon be allowed to leave (the hospital).
Discharge v: allow to leave; dismiss 允许离开
e.g. The soldier was wounded and honorably discharged.
their own jobs.
out to work.
c. Parents of an average c. Parents of an average
family work 65-80 hours family worked 40-45
a less care of their their own own elderly.
In this text, the author first tells a story to introduce the issue. Then she analyzes the causes of the problems that Sandwich Generation is faced with. Next, more specific examples are given to further explain problems connected with the elder care. And the author also gives us one example to show that some families can deal with the elder care well. Finally, she draws the conclusion.
Yes, she finally agreed to take her mother when the hospital promised to help arrange some home care. “That” refers to “the hospitals” contacting her. Her problem was that she was unable to look after her old mother because she was holding down a job herself and she had to take care of her own children.
The generation which struggles to care for both their children and their elders, often while holding down a job as well.
Q4: Households nowadays are profoundly changed from previous generations. What are the differences between the current generation and previous generation?
3. …she was well enough to feed herself and was beginning to walk unassisted.
… she was so well that she could eat by herself and was beginning to walk without help .
Although statistics indicate that the percentage of elderly people living with their children is becoming smaller, those who move in to stay with their children enter families which are totally different fron those of previous generation.
The municipal government has taken effective measures to hold prices down.
6. Although statistics show that the proportion of seniors living with their children is decreasing, those who do move in with their children enter hoseholds profoundly changed from previous generations.
Current
Previous
a. Seniors have few
a. Seniors had more
members who can
children and fewer
share the burden.
children to share
the burden.
b. Many daughters have b. Women seldom went