SOWK 6121 University of British Columbia Sandwich Generation Case Study

Brief Description of the Family 

Jose Santiago, Jr: age 45, mixed raced, heterosexual, married male. Works at Automotive Plant. Married his high school sweetheart.  

Maria  Santiago: age 43, Latina female, Catholic. She works as a secretary at an elementary school and is very involved in her children’s lives such as being a baseball mom, , dance coach and married her high school sweetheart, Jose. 

Lorraine Santiago: age 89, mixed raced, heterosexual female. Has dementia and was a head cook. 

Jose Santiago, Sr.: age 91, Latina, heterosexual male, retired veteran who leg is amputated from war and has other ailments. 

Mercedes Santiago: age 21, mixed-raced, heterosexual female, college student who is involved in dancing and is a premed student  . 

Juan Santiago: age 3, Mixed-raced, heterosexual male. 

The family lives in a middle-class neighborhood where the schools are blocks away and there’s  limited resources. Jose job provides good health insurance and a decent wage, but long hours which makes it difficult to take care of his parents. The family always attended church together weekly on Sunday. 

Roles of the Group Members: To complete this assignment and the future assignments, each member will commit to completing the prompts or questions in the assignment; each member will choose their “part,” and email it to the leader in a timely manner. 

Communication methods: The group will be utilizing emails to send contents, and WhatsApp for group chatting. 

Timeline: 

Week 4 – Scope of the Issue 

Week 5 – Engagement and Assessment 

Week 6 – Evidenced Based Family interventions 

Week 7 – Advantages and Disadvantages of the interventions 

Week 8 – Recommendations for treatment 

Week 9 – Evaluation of treatment 

Week 10 – Final Project with References