Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Everyone falls prey to the feeling of loneliness from time to time but few — whether ...

Foster kids need stable housing and caring adults. Elders want to be part of a community. Derenda Schubert finds the answer in intergenerational "villages," where young and old live side-by-side.

A few months ago, my daughter and son-in-law had a leak in their apartment and, along with their newborn son, moved in with me — “temporarily.” If you told me years ago that I’d be living in a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An intergenerational respite, mentorship and training program benefits patients with dementia, their caregivers ...

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Previous work has explored the links between intergenerational ambivalence and other indicators of well‐being but has not examined loneliness. Although studies show an association between positive and ...

On a recent sunny afternoon at Cadbury Commons, an assisted living facility in Cambridge, Aileen Callahan tossed a cornhole bag across the patio. The facility’s staff joined in a game of hopscotch in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is expanding a program that gives robot animals to New Yorkers. Now, more senior New Yorkers will get animatronic pets to help ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A new program at Muskogee Public Schools is allowing dozens of pre-K students to experience intergenerational learning alongside seniors at The Springs Skilled Nursing and Therapy.

In the quiet stretches of the Southern Downs, loneliness slowly creeps up on the community, often going unnoticed and leaving ...