Health
Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
National service programs can bring together older and younger people to serve side by side, producing a windfall of human and social capital, plus much-needed generational and cultural understanding.
How universities can help mitigate the financial insecurities and social isolation of graduate students and older adults in their communities.
How second careers for older adults can help nonprofit workplaces age-integrate and benefit from multigenerational mentoring.
Why more funders need to address multiple issues simultaneously, and what the only US foundation currently funding intergenerational programs has learned from the approach.
Four ways classroom tutoring support can improve education while increasing the well-being of young and older populations in underserved communities.
A look at how colleges and universities can move from age-segregated institutions to age-integrated ones.
Intergenerational shared sites that bring childcare and eldercare under the same roof help both generations thrive, and we need to build more of them.
Four ways technology can help organizations working to fight loneliness, while transforming eldercare and the lives of older and younger adults.
Intergenerational home-sharing provides younger adults with affordable housing and older adults with needed income and a way to age in place.