A recently released study from the UK asks some rather interesting questions about intergenerational programs. Most prominently the idea was to discover if such cooperative programs worked and where they did, were there some keys to that success.
While the results may not be startling they do give us some ideas when we consider participating in..Read the rest…

On the first day of every month we like to invite you to participate in here on Multigenerational Living.
You will notice several posts by “guest”, those are all submissions from readers like you. If you would like to offer up your thoughts please just use the contact button and send along your ideas. Don’t worry..Read the rest…

Periodically we want to explore what the researchers and academics in university research have to say about multigenerational living. Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology are certainly interested in many of the same issues we talk about here every day. So we have asked our “academic connection” The Professor to give us some insight into current research..Read the rest…

We were reading an article about mistrust between generations. The piece was in an academic journal and sounded both authoritative and well… not quite right. So we asked some of our multigenerational family members about it and got a lot of definite “No” answers. While their family experiences included disagreements and different political or religious..Read the rest…

Google the term “Intergenerational School” and you are going to get a lot of hits for The Intergenerational School in Cleveland, Ohio. And for a number of really good reasons. Here is how they describe their educational model.
TIS is a free public charter school. Our educational model was born from the desire to create a..Read the rest…

Let’s define intergenerational literacy as the tendency to pass on literacy abilities or the lack of them from parent to child. We know this is statistically true and we also know that dedicated school reading programs can break a family cycle of illiteracy by providing school age kids with new skills.
When we think a bit..Read the rest…

We couldn’t say it much better than they do on the Gaia foundation website, so here is what they say about their programs in intergenerational learning.
“Inter-generational Learning is founded on the understanding that it is vitally important for societies to ensure that the ecological knowledge and practices accumulated over generations is passed on through experience..Read the rest…

Road Scholar is a travel based website formerly known as Edlerhostel. They have a huge section devoted to “Grandparent Travel” by which they mean travel packages for grandparents and grandchildren. Covering mostly the United States and Canada these packages are meant for a certain type of traveler. From their website:
“Road Scholar Intergenerational Programs were designed..Read the rest…

A reader wrote to ask: “How do you know if a multigenerational housing solution is right for your family?”
She was struggling with the question of whether to combine her family (husband and three children) with her in-laws, who were “healthy enough” now but both over 75 years old.
So we tossed this out to our staff..Read the rest…

On the first day of every month we like to invite you to participate in here on Multigenerational Living.
You will notice several posts by “guest”, those are all submissions from readers like you. If you would like to offer up your thoughts please just use the contact button and send along your ideas. Don’t worry..Read the rest…