Great reports about intergenerational programs across the country!
Santa Rosa, CA: “Extraordinary moments happened one after the next at a Santa Rosa retirement community when 32 middle-school art students presented the portraits they’d drawn of 32 of the residents. Nearly all of the models, all residents of Friends House in Rincon Valley, posed for a photo with their portrait and the Rincon Valley Middle School Art II student who’d sketched it.” Click here to read more.
Tualatin, OR: “Tualatin Public Library has received a $39,853 federal grant for a project that Manager Abigail Elder hopes will create a positive link between older and younger generations in the community. Funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), the grant is called ‘Natural Resources: Mining the knowledge and talents of older adults’ and aims to utilize skills of retired citizens in the community to teach young people.” Click here to read more.
New York, NY: “Thirty senior citizens squeezed around a long table designed for about 20, the crush made tighter by canes, walkers and wheelchairs…They wanted to begin the task of catching up with a technical world whose rapid-fire evolution has left much of America’s oldest generation isolated from its children, grandchildren and tech-savvy friends…Their teachers were students from New York’s Pace University who earn credits participating in a program to bridge the gap created by the computer age.” Click here to read more.
Have you ever found yourself wondering what will become of the world when the younger generation takes over? 
“A 2011 MetLife Mature Market Institute review of existing research and news reports estimated elder victims lose at least $2.9 billion annually from fraud, up 12 percent from 2008. Fraud perpetrated by strangers accounted for 51 percent of reported cases, followed by fraud committed by family, friends and neighbors, which accounted for 34 percent. A 2010 study by the non-profit group Investor Protection Trust said about 7 million Americans over 65, or 1 in 5, have lost money from fraud schemes.” 
