Do failing grandparents and kids mix? Some 20 million Americans today fall into the category of the Sandwich Generation –- families caring for both elderly parents and young children. In these multigenerational households, grandparents and children joust for priority. Parents who assumed their households would expand to accommodate their parents as easily as their hearts swelled to accommodate second and third babies discover a different world.
Camp Building Bridges is an Oklahoma camp seeking to support teens who are growing up in the middle of the sandwich. North Texas Natural Family heard from Linda Ross at the Dallas chapter of that Alzheimer’s Association with news of a young boy who needs community help to get him to camp this summer.
“I am working with a family comprised of a 64-year-old early onset grandmother who is the primary breadwinner for her 41-year-old disabled daughter and her 13-year-old son, who is an honor student, animal lover and a great kid,” she writes. “He is having a really hard time with both the women in his life being in need of so much help. He needs help!
“We are trying to raise funds to send him to Camp Building Bridges in Oklahoma this summer. It is a camp for children with Alzheimer’s disease in their families, a place where they can be with other kids struggling with the same issues and also just be kids for a week. We are seeking to raise the $600 camp fee for this young man to attend. Any ideas?”
Of course we have some ideas — we’ll help spread the word!
You can help send this young man to Camp Building Bridge by making a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association’s Camp Building Bridges Scholarship Fund.
- Give online at the Greater Dallas Chapter website; specify that your donation go toward the Camp Building Bridges Scholarship Fund.
- Donate by phone by calling 214.540.2405
- Mail donations to (specify Camp Building Bridges Scholarship Fund):
Bryant Martin, Director of Development
Alzheimer’s Association
4144 N. Central Expressway, Suite 750
Dallas, Texas 75204
