“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 ...
America has a loneliness epidemic, but for aging people, social isolation has grave health consequences, including an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
WILLMAR — Dorothy Benson wore a big smile as she rolled her wheelchair out of the community room at the Carris Health Rice Care Center. "That was a lot of fun," she beamed. She and a handful of other ...
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 ...