Intergenerational Approaches in Aging

Implications for Education, Policy, and Practice

Robert Disch, Kevin Brabazon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136377679
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

In Intergenerational Approaches in Aging: Implications for Education, Policy, and Practice, leading practitioners and academics from a variety of disciplines come together to discuss theoretical issues, current practice, and future directions for this rapidly developing field. The authors address key topics such as defining the intergenerational field, the effects of the segregation of groups by age on social function and organization in our communities, and designing, implementing, and assessing programs that create cross-generational connections. Exploring ways to provide services to different age groups while tapping the strengths and skills of each age group, Intergenerational Approaches in Aging examines the application of intergenerational approaches to important social issues as well as specific challenges faced by practitioners. It makes suggestions for integrating intergenerational studies into the higher education system and for challenging segregated services and funding programs. As the book shows, promoting cooperation between diverse segments of society also depends on:

• making intergenerational programming a permanent feature of public schools
  
• understanding and meeting the social, mental health, and medical needs of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren
  
• using observational research to study and evaluate intergenerational program effectiveness and the relationships among the people involved
  
• viewing differences among people as assets
  
• developing intergenerational program models
  
• providing children with a 'life-cycle'view of the worldIntergenerational Approaches in Aging offers the personnel of state and local agencies on aging, nursing homes, senior centers, and geriatric homes practical advice, innovative ideas, and supportive materials for developing and implementing intergenerational activities and programs that can benefit all parties involved. Academics and school administrators will also benefit from this book as they learn concrete methods for integrating aging education into already existing curricula and building new conceptual frames of reference for a wide variety of social issues and historical topics.

Index

AARP. See American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)

Across Ages Project (school-based Philadelphia project), 125, 139, See also Intergenerational programming models: mentoring of vulnerable youth

Adoption, grandparent caregiving and, 41, 42, 67

Adult development, 9

AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) program, 68

African Americans

elderly roles of, 199

as grandparent caregivers, 49, 54, 59-60

health and illness attitudes of, 206

Age information exchange concept, 121

Age-segregation

cultural transmission and, 198

isolation from, 1, 7

prevalence of, 198

results of, 7, 104, 111, 198

Ageism

gerontology advocates against, 11

need to understand, 107

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, 68

AIDS, grandparent caregiving related to, 33, 47, 54-55, 60, 63

Ala Wai project (HI), 215, 223, 224

Alliance for Service Learning in Education Reform, 106

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)

environmental initiatives of, 255

grandparent caregiving statistics of, 33

Grandparent Information Center of, 72

independent living initiative of, 255

intergenerational specialists in, 12

motto of, 213

networking by, 231

volunteer management of, 258

American Sign Language (ASL), dance relationship and, 118-119

American Society on Aging, 23

Arts programming, 2

Asian Americans

filial piety of, 199

health and illness attitudes of, 206

immigration factors of, 203-204

ASL (American Sign Language), dance relationship and, 118-119

Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, 23

Baecher-Brown, Dee, 163, 169

Block Fields, Helene, 151

Bradley, Bill, 244

Brookdale Center on Aging, 1

Callison, Herbert, 229

Center for Intergenerational Learning, at Temple University, 20, 125, 126, 139, 197, 201, 208

Charles Mott Foundation, 241n.1

Child development, 9

Child psychology, 9

Children. See Grandparent caregiving: specific subject

Civilian Conservation Corps, 255

Clinton, Bill, 165

Co-learning program concept, 80

Cohen, Sue T., 47

Collins, Caroline L., 183

Commission on National and Community Service, 213

Community building intergenerational programming: intra-and cross-cultural understanding

acculturation rates and, 200

age segregation and, 198

child rearing values and, 205-206

conclusions regarding, 208

cultural herita...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Section I: Defining the Intergenerational Field
• Section II: Grandparent Caregiving
• Section III: Intergenerational Education
• Section IV: Intergenerational Program Models
• Section V: Approaches to Evaluation
• Section VI: Community Building
• Section VII: The Road Ahead
• Index