sandwich generation

(noun)

The generation of persons who are the children of baby boomers, whose lifestyle is governed by the fact that they must simultaneously care for the needs of their children and their own elderly parents.

Related Terms

Examples of sandwich generation in the following topics:

  • The "Sandwich Generation" and Elder Care

    • For example, many countries in Asia use government-established elderly care quite infrequently, preferring the traditional methods of being cared for by younger generations of family members.
    • The Sandwich generation is a generation of people who care for their aging parents while supporting their own children.

  • Identifying Product Benefits

    • You pass by a deli and see various types of ready-made sandwiches in the window.
    • While your hunger drives the initial buying behavior (the benefit), there are other, more subtle, components to selecting one sandwich from many (product features).
    • Features tell you what the product is -- a chicken sandwich made with organic ingredients and whole grain bread.
    • They are generally conducted at the start of any new product, process, or service design initiative to better understand the customer's wants and needs, and as the key input for new product definition, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), and the setting of detailed design specifications.
    • They must be the ones who take the lead in defining the topic, designing the sample (i.e. the types of customers to include), generating the questions for the discussion guide, either conducting or observing and analyzing the interviews, and extracting and processing the needs statements.

  • Injuring the Plasma Membrane

    • Another example is polymyxins antibiotics which have a general structure consisting of a cyclic peptide with a long hydrophobic tail.
    • Diagram of a typical gram-negative bacterium, with the thin cell wall sandwiched between the red outer membrane and the thin green plasma membrane.

  • Inverses of Composite Functions

    • In general, the composition of functions will not be commutative.
    • This would entail ordering more sandwiches, which means ordering more ingredients, drinks, plates, etc.

  • Apostrophes

    • In such cases where there is little or no chance of misreading, however, it is generally preferable to omit the apostrophe.

  • Active Voice vs. Passive Voice

    • These sentences will generally follow the pattern of subject–verb–object (or simply subject–verb, for intransitive verbs—i.e., for verbs that don't need an object):
    • Active voice is generally more direct and neutral than passive voice.
    • Active voice is generally more effective at capturing the reader's attention.
    • Passive voice is also often used when talking about general rules, to make it clear that the performer is less important than the action.

  • Inputs and Outputs of the Function

    • Cars, clothing, sandwiches, and toys are all examples of output.

  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)

    • Several variations of ELISA, seen in , exist but the most commonly used method is the sandwich ELISA.
    • The sandwich assay uses two different antibodies that are reactive with different epitopes on the antigen with a concentration that needs to be determined.

  • The British Strategy

    • For the first two years of the war, he could spare few troops to reinforce North America and urged the commander-in-chief in North America, Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost, to maintain a defensive strategy.
    • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
    • On October 13, United States forces were again defeated at the Battle of Queenston Heights, where General Brock was killed.
    • They were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat towards Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.
    • A British invasion of Louisiana, unknowingly launched after the Treaty of Ghent was negotiated to end the war, was defeated with very heavy British losses by General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815.

  • Antibody Proteins and Antigen Binding

    • The general structure of all antibodies is very similar.
    • All chains have a characteristic immunoglobulin fold in which two beta sheets create a "sandwich" shape, held together by interactions between conserved cysteines and other charged amino acids.
    • The large and diverse population of antibodies is generated by random combinations of a set of gene segments that encode different or paratopes, followed by random mutations in this area of the antibody gene, which create further diversity.
    • In most cases, interaction of the B cell with a T helper cell is necessary to produce full activation of the B cell and, therefore, antibody generation following antigen binding.