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Connecting generations for healthy ageing
Melrose Stewart |
TEDxLeamingtonSpa
• November 2017
Keeping older people connected and actively engaged with young children reduces social isolation and depression. As one of the experts in the television programme ‘Old People's Home for 4 year Olds’, Melrose Stewart and colleagues showed how it is possible to improve the lives of lonely older people through a mixture of intergenerational activities. Learning and having fun together was shown to bring mutual benefits across the age spectrum.
Melrose is a university lecturer and Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in health promotion. She sees intergenerational activities as a revolutionary way to maintain the inclusion of older people within communities and promote healthy ageing.