Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?

Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load up babies and toddlers into four- and six-seater carts and take the children on “buggy rides” through the building. They stop first to visit residents in the assisted living wing before continuing on to those in the nursing home. “Just walking down the hall and seeing kids’ faces light up — or residents’ faces light up — it makes your whole day,” says Kaci Brandt, director of Tiny Images, which is located inside Fairview Manor, a city-owned, nonprofit nursing home in the rural community... [Read more...]