While watching her children interact with not only her mother but other, lonelier seniors at Versa-Care Retirement Community, Liz Martorano saw a spark between the youngest and oldest members of her community and realized that intergenerational bond needed to be nurtured.
This except is from a Brant News article published in June of 2009.
“In other parts of the world, elders are highly respected and the younger generations are eager to sit at their feet and learn from them,” said Martorano, who organized a seniors and kids intergenerational program in September 2005 by having elementary school classes visit seniors’ facilities.
“We have not re-invented the wheel, we are just re-introducing something that has been lost.”
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