Author: Jennifer Levin

Jennifer N. Levin is a television writer and journalist from New York City and founder of Caregiver Collective, an online support group for Millennial caregivers. Jennifer's writing has been published in The Washington Post, Berliner Zeitung, Cosmopolitan, NJ.com and LA Weekly, among others. Jennifer has written extensively on how caregiving differs for the Millennial generation and been interviewed by outlets and podcasts including The New York Times, The Washington Post and PBS NewsHour. She served on a steering committee for the National Alliance for Caregiving addressing caregiver needs through the pandemic. Jennifer graduated from University of Michigan. She lives in New York and Berlin, Germany.

One Mom, Two Kids and a Chronically Ill Husband: The Hidden Burden of Multigenerational Caregivers

Lizzie, a 34-year-old mom who cares for her husband with long COVID, is emblematic of how the classic sandwich generation has evolved for our generation into the multigenerational caregiver—caring for multiple family members of, you guessed it, different generations; in Lizzie’s case, her husband and children. Since COVID, in particular, the age of multigenerational caregivers has become younger as more of us take on care of an affected spouse (or sibling).