Stephen Burke, founder of the charity United For All Ages, points out the importance of the intergenerational connection.
They offer mentoring and training in workplaces and perspectives that enhance intergenerational connection.
I spoke with Munson about her new work, a story of poetry, memories and the intergenerational connection of family.
Many intergenerational connections are fleeting, lacking density.
Proximity between very old and very young strikes some people as an opportunity for intergenerational connections.
And workplaces provide rich andauthentic intergenerational connections that are rare in other settings.
All sectors of society will need to play a role in providing older adults with a broad range of community-based assistance to meet their needs including 1) affordable and accessible housing, 2) convenient transportation, 3) work, education, and volunteer opportunities, 4) access to health and support services, 5) participation in civic and cultural activities, and 6) intergenerational connections.
The organization I lead, Grantmakers In Aging, through its age-friendly initiative Community AGEnda, funded by the Pfizer Foundation, has launched a person-to-person social media campaign called #GenTogether, which encourages intergenerational connections by inviting people to take a photo with at least one friend, acquaintance, or family member of another generation.
Jazz has always gleaned something vital and a bit mysterious from intergenerational dialogue: a spark of connection, the abrasion of contrast, an expression of the music's enduring elasticity.
I thus use the concept of "intimate power" to describe the particular features of the exercise of power in the intergenerational parenting coalition, highlighting the connection between intimate relations and power in the family.
Since the market reform, along with the nuclearization of the family and the prevalence of the independence of an adult son's conjugal family from his natal family in residence, property, and finance, parents and their adult children have shifted from intrafamily to interfamily relations and intergenerational relations have become the connection between two nuclear families (Wang 2010).
