A University of California San Francisco study found that 43% of older adults reported feeling lonely. The same study found that those adults had a greater risk of health decline or death, ...
Trinity Living Center, a Salisbury-based adult day program of Lutheran Services Carolinas, recently received nearly $20,000 in grants to support intergenerational programming that brings program ...
Social connectedness, avoiding social isolation, living life intentionally and maintaining a sense of meaning and purpose − promote health and well-being among older adults, foster resilience and hope ...
“A very interesting thing happened today,” my girlfriend told me in a conversation a few years ago. Her son Max had come home from school excitedly and exclaimed, “Ma, I had a fun time today. We went ...
What do a college campus and a retirement community have in common? More than you might think, and gathering members of both communities together through intergenerational programming brings about ...
MISENHEIMER — Pfeiffer University was recently selected to receive a renewal grant in the amount of $13,000 from the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to continue work with the organization’s ...
As the population ages, there is a great potential for linking young and old people together through intergenerational programming. According to Lisa Lea, YMCA Childcare Director at Generations Child ...
“What will it mean for all of us to grow up, live and age in a society where half the citizens are over the age of 50? That reality is closer than most of us are willing to imagine. Never in human ...
As the community room at Forest Oak Towers in Gaithersburg filled with music and the sounds of children stamping their feet, 75-year-old Olivia Price couldn't help but join in. Gripping the handles of ...