Caring for children and elderly parents... what life is like for the 'squeezed middle'

They are the generation juggling work, raising their kids, and minding their ageing parents. Yvonne Reddin speaks to people in the midst of 'mid-life care'

Ruth Elizabeth Powell and her dad. She lives in Dublin and travels across the sea to South Wales every six weeks to visit him.

There's a group of people we don’t talk about enough — the squeezed middle. Not squeezed by money as such but by responsibility, caught between raising children and caring for their ageing parents.

Many of us have children later in life now, so it can feel like we move straight from nappies and school runs to hospital appointments and round-the-clock worry, barely pausing for breath in between.