Across the world nursing home combined with orphanages: the results are amazing

The first such experience began to practice in Japan in 1976. And the results of all impressed.

Japanese experience

It all started with the fact that the Tokyo rayoneEdogava organized the "integrated intergenerational center" Koto. In the same building housed a nursing home and kindergarten. Children and old together doing creative work, communicate and organized joint celebrations. Employees of nursing home notice significant improvements in the psychological state of the wards, and the garden was full, while other kindergartens in the area were filled only 70%.

Many children were friends with the elderly and after kindergarten. And in 20 years of existence of the whole country program opened 16 centers with a similar focus.

Other countries

The experience of Japan have adopted other countries. In 1991, a similar program launched in Seattle. nursing home and kindergarten are located in the same building. Just do not think that older people caring for children or vice versa. Communication takes place in doses that actors did not get tired of each other. At two generations sing, dance, cook, paint. About this project even made a documentary film Present Perfect. The filmmakers said that children are filled with lively old and lust for life.

In September 2017 a similar center was opened in the UK. It all started with the fact that a teacher has led his students in a nursing home. Old people often asked them to come on a visit, and she decided to merge the two institutions.

A similar project has also in Canada, Australia and Singapore. And in some countries, combined children's homes and shelters for orphans. Only children do not live with elderly people under one roof, and metered spend joint leisure - because old people are too weak to withstand the long activity of kids.

Not only children

And in Arizona, joined the shelter for homeless animals, and a nursing home. The idea of ​​such collaboration has arisen at a nursing home nurse Rebecca Hamilton. In her free time, she was a volunteer at an animal shelter and noticed that there do not cope with the influx of homeless kittens. Then she decided to involve the elderly in the care of kittens.Such cooperation benefited all - kittens have received care and older people no longer suffer from loneliness.

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