sentences with seniors

[psocoptera]

Everybody in a retirement community/rehab center loves a baby.

... I continue to believe that age segregation is highly unnatural and a less-than-ideal byproduct of the industrialization of life-stage services. I'm not saying I wish we could go back to the familial model - the mass production of recovery supports a much higher level of specialization (and thus quality of life regained for patients) than you'd get with every family its own inefficient workshop. And we're totally going to send the baby to the education factory once it's time for that. Just, you know, it has its sadnesses.

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

Maybe retirement communities should offer free daycare.

[gallian.livejournal.com]

My old school used to run a program calked "swim with a special child". Seniors would volunteer to come swim with students with special needs for half an hour. Theraputic for both groups.

[kelilah.livejournal.com]

I was thinking recently that this is why I really love Revels--it's purposely multigenerational, with kids and then adults of all ages. Okay, "all ages" is mostly 20-70, with the majority between 45 and 65, but still. I was specifically thinking about a couple of conversations I had with other women in the group, who were sharing their experiences with pregnancy and breastfeeding, and it gave me this feeling of belonging to an awesome community of women--I hadn't said "hey, I want to have a baby soon, please share your thoughts," but there was no sense of "we're talking about these things we know about and you don't," and there were women whose kids were young and women whose kids were grown, older than I am, and it was just very "we are a village," you know?

intergenerational joy

[eastgategirl.livejournal.com]

I know that having kids, and grandkids, and her fabulous great-grandkid as part of her life will help my mother recover from her stroke. Seeing and interacting with people of all ages is normal and healthy. Things get complicated in this mobile country of ours when people take jobs thousands of miles from family, so doing more than occasional visiting is hard. When Junie comes to visit, she is suddenly everyone's grand- and great-grandchild, and she brightens everyone's day. She brings intergenerational joy. I'm very glad that my mom is in a setting where children are welcome. I'm glad for both my mom and for Junie, and, of course, for those of us in between.