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 ...
When my older son was 2 years old, a fellow mom arranged for our playgroup to visit a local nursing home at Halloween and holiday time. The seniors’ faces lit up upon seeing the children dressed in ...
Nancy Lanning (left) and Julie Kelnar (right) met through the Intergenerational ConnectionsProgram, a partnership between Coe College and UnityPoint Health, that connects seniorsand college students. ...
It’s all smiles as seniors living with dementia gather with young people in a program designed to bring about empathy and respect. At ONEgeneration, a non-profit that brings seniors and preschoolers ...
The Artful Living and Learning Program, founded in 2008, uses art immersion in preschool classrooms to improve academics and problem-solving while preparing kids for kindergarten. This year, the ...
At Vincentian Terrace Place, community is built across generations. Through its Students in Residence Program, Vincentian brings undergraduate students and older adults together under one roof to form ...
An expanding intergenerational program, that has infants and their parents singing songs and listening to stories at retirement residences and long-term care facilities, has received an award from ...