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Club Sandwich You've got them. We've got you. The community for those caring for ageing parents, and everything else. Real talk. No platitudes or BS.

Weekly podcast, live events across Australia, people who respond at 2am 'same'. Just expert support that works.

19/10/2026

We’re planning a Doona Day for the sandwich generation, and everyone’s invited to stay in bed. 🛏️

56% of working Australians in the sandwich generation have used their own leave to manage a parent’s care. Sarah and Melissa haven’t taken leave in a year either.

So tell your boss you’re with your parents. Tell your parents you’re at work. Tell everyone whatever you need to, and let’s take one day together.

Stay tuned, we’re going to make this real. Comment DOONA below and we’ll let you know first.

🤝 Vera provides free, safe and secure help for families navigatign this. Visit vera.guide
📖 Reader "Stand Up and Be Counted" vera.guide/standup
🎧 Listen to Club Sandwich and find your people.

18/10/2026

What’s in your squish this week? 🥪 Mum’s appointment, another work deadline, school pickup, a call from the pharmacy? 🥪

We’ve counted the people living it: 2.43 million Australians care for a parent at least once a week, and 6.32 million are helping now or expect to within ten years.

You count, and we’re here to help.

🎧 Listen to Club Sandwich. Find your people and DM us with any topics you'd like us to cover | clubsandwich.community
🤝 Get help from Vera: vera.guide | Free, safe and secure always
📖 Read the report "Stand Up and Be Counted" vera.guide/standup

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Tell us what’s in your squish this week. We read every comment.

16/10/2026

It’s no picnic being the sandwich generation. 🥪
Now we have a number. 2.43 million Australians aged 35 to 70 are caring for an ageing parent at least once a week.
And it’s about to get bigger. 6.32 million Australians aged 35 to 70 are either helping a parent now or expect to start within ten years. Only 46% think of themselves as carers.
Listen to the Club Sandwich podcast and find your people: clubsandwich.community

Read the free report: vera.guide

Which layer is yours this week? Tell us in the comments.

14/10/2026

🥪🥪 We asked a question nobody had bothered to ask: how many Australians are actually in the sandwich generation? The answer is 2.43 million, caring for a parent at least once a week. That’s more people than live in Perth. Its almost half the population on New Zealand. It's a lot.

6.32 million Australians are already doing this work or expect to start within ten years. More than one in five people in this country. They need recognition, services and support. Now, not in forty years.

The numbers we had before were too small, too badly defined and frankly a bit dusty. So we commissioned a proper national count. We published it in Carers Week, which most of the people in it would assume they weren’t invited to. More about that in the report. Read it here vera.guide

New Club Sandwich episode out now, where Melissa and Sarah go through the findings. Sarah would like it on the record that she is not taking anyone on a journey.

14/10/2026

Doesn’t that say it all? Nobody had even bothered to count us. 🥪
On Thursday 15 October, in Carers Week, Vera and YouGov publish the first national count of the sandwich generation. Early access: vera.guide/signup

Who are you sending this to?

13/10/2026

Do you think of yourself as a carer?

A lot of people helping an ageing parent just see themselves as a daughter, a son, doing what needs to be done. 'Carer' just isn't a label more sandwich genners identify with. So they never reach for the services with “carer” in the name.

If that’s you, tell us in the comments: when did you first realise you were one? Or do you still not use the word?

On Thursday 15 October, in Carers Week, Vera and YouGov publish the first national count of Australia’s sandwich generation. Get early access: vera.guide/signup

Tag the person who needs to hear this. 🥪

12/10/2026

How many Australians are in the sandwich generation? Nobody knows.

It’s an invisible army with no headcount and no uniform. Every time Sarah writes about it, the answer she gets is “we don’t know.” Nobody else in the country was counting.

We believe you don’t need kids to be in the sandwich. Modern families are blended, childless, interstate, and the old definitions are still living in the 1950s. If you’re caring for a parent, you’re in it.

Ever started a sentence with “I’m not sure if this counts, but...” about the help you give a parent? It counts. You’re part of this invisible army, and you deserve to be recognised and supported.

You can’t fix what you’re not counting, so Vera counted. The first national count of Australia’s sandwich generation is out Thursday 15 October. Get early access: vera.guide/standup

🎧 Bonus episode out now: clubsandwich.community
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You’ve got them. We’ve got you. 🥪

11/10/2026

Every morning, Jack goes for a walk. No phone.
Nicole Rogerson’s son Jack has autism, and years ago his psychologist set up a simple ritual: a tech-free walk, first thing, every day. It’s stuck ever since, and it’s one of the things that keeps him grounded.
Sometimes the most useful advice isn’t complicated. It’s just consistent.

New episode out now: clubsandwich.community
Find Club Sandwich wherever yuou get your favourite p📱📱odcasts. All epsides on Youtube too.
You’ve got them. We’ve got you.

05/10/2026

Relief. Not fear.
That's what Gina felt when she was told she had vascular dementia. No more tests. No more appointments. No more waiting to find out what's coming.
Her daughter Michelle puts it simply: "I can just be me."
It's completely changed how this family talks about the diagnosis, out loud, without flinching from it.
New episode out now. Link in comments or find us wherever you get your favourite podcasts. 🥪

30/09/2026

This week on Club Sandwich, we're meeting Gina and her family to talk about living with dementia, from everyone's prespective. 🥪 💛
Sarah sits down with Gina's daughters Marie and Michelle, and Vanessa from ECH, to talk about dementia day programmes, and why they matter just as much for the family as for Gina herself.
"It's the real self-care, because you can replenish," says Vanessa. Go play golf, like Gina's husband David does. You're allowed.
Episode out Thursday.

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