Almost a third of middle-aged women spend over a month every year looking after family dependants, new research by the Good Life Sorted has revealed.
Last year, 43,000 women in the UK were forced to quit their full-time jobs to become carers for relatives in need.
Hayley Timson, 48, is one of them and part of the 'sandwich generation' caught in the middle, caring for elderly parents and young children, in an ageing population.
