{"id":266141,"date":"2026-01-27T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266141\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:00:09","slug":"sinead-ryan-it-was-a-relief-when-mum-finally-went-into-a-nursing-home-as-a-family-we-had-run-through-the-gamut-of-home-care-options-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266141\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinead Ryan: \u2018It was a relief when mum finally went into a nursing home. As a family we had run through the gamut of home-care options for years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Caring for both ageing parents and children presents a unique challenge for the so-called \u2018sandwich generation\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Balancing caregiving roles for two generations is often a source of financial and emotional pressure. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b731c558-d6fb-4936-b0c7-00da29351d53.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Balancing caregiving roles for two generations is often a source of financial and emotional pressure. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I won\u2019t lie. It was a relief when mum finally went into a nursing home. There\u2019s such joy in simply visiting her now, for a cup of tea and a chat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As a family we had run through the gamut of home-care options for years. Dealing with correspondence, driving to appointments, clinics, doctors, dentists, shops and banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caring for both ageing parents and children presents a unique challenge for the so-called \u2018sandwich generation\u2019 Balancing caregiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,17377],"class_list":{"0":"post-266141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sinead-ryan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}