The older and the younger are a great symbiotic couple. The young have abilities the older lack and vice versa. Yet no longer accepted at work, the elderly face the challenges of an age-segregated society. How can we all contribute to breaking down age barriers? How do we engage our younger friends and family members to pursue this important goal? There are some experiments here and there. Lasell Village<\/a> requires its mature residents to take classes at Lasell College, yielding benefits for both the Village residents and the College undergraduates and faculty. The Brandeis Women’s Studies Center LINK requires all work study students to be student-scholar partners that is, not merely help the scholar, but to receive mentoring in return as well as money, Students gain contacts and real knowledge of what it takes to be a writer or musician or scientist. SCORE<\/a>, a group of older retired business leaders, mentor new entrepreneurs at the early stages of their business launches. Big brother\/Big sister<\/a> pairs older volunteers with youngsters. Older people not only have instrumental skills, but they also have perspective. Life’s difficulties happen to all of us and gives us new perspective<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The older and the younger are a great symbiotic couple. The young have abilities the older lack and vice versa. Yet no longer accepted at work, the elderly face the challenges of an age-segregated society. How can we all contribute to breaking down age barriers? How do we engage our younger friends and family members Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}