Governor of Goa Mridula Sinha from last 15 years have been advocating to club crèches with old age homes as it will be learning experience for both. She even once lectured in UNO few years back for the same and now it seems Intergenerational Learning Center, Seattle is adhering to idea as reported by ABC News America.
It’s being done at a preschool in Seattle, where child care takes place throughout a campus which is also home to more than 400 older adults. Called the Intergenerational Learning Center, the preschool is located within Providence Mount St. Vincent, a senior care center in West Seattle. Five days a week, the children and residents come together in a variety of planned activities such as music, dancing, art, lunch, storytelling or just visiting. She called the preschool a “genius” idea that is “well within our reach” on a larger scale and hopes the idea expands to other schools around the country. “It’s a great example of how we integrate the elderly into society.”
Residents of “the Mount,” Briggs said, did a “complete transformation in the presence of the children. Moments before the kids came in; sometimes the people seemed half alive, sometimes asleep. It was a depressing scene. As soon as the kids walked in for art or music or making sandwiches for the homeless or whatever the project that day was, the residents came alive.” (COURTSEY ABC NEWS AMERICA)
