This is basically what Italian graparents and grandchildren experience everyday in Italy... Nowaday grandparents are the welfare of Italian family...while parents are at work the children learn most stuff from school and them. This is a help create bond between generations and pass old knowledge to young.
Unless you have no grandparents alive or nearby, in that case you'll have to pay €€€€€€ for kindergartens and babysitters cause there is no Welfare State in Italy for those without a family and that's a shame. Welfare state should be available for everyone, should be based on the single person without assuming that he/she can be supported by the family....
@@lores996 I agree but I wanted to pride our nation for once 🥲 My parents who are fromWest Africa had face a lot of thi issue. But back in time people were moro caring about eachother. and I enjoyed hang out with my classmate granparents and I learn a lot. The lack of family welfare and low income is what concerns me most I have lot of Italian friend abroad with kids and they complain a lot about the policy of all italian government in the last 20 years
@@lucamarchina8671it's the same way in Latin America. The concept of "Bbaysitter" never existed before, as family always lived together and helped each other.
@@fatimateresa19 Maybe it's related to wealth 🤑 back in the day not all could afford to change city for work or move just for the pleasure of living where you want. You stay where your family is or you have a house. Nowaday is more easy . I don't know it's just a idea
I have been saying this for years in the USA. It’s a brilliant idea. Elderly people need to feel needed and children need to learn from the wisdom of the willing elders ❤. Definitely more educational and personal. Ethics, morals, ingenuity so many good qualities combined 👏👏
This is awesome. The kids have tons of grandpa's & grandma's to enjoy and the elderly people will benefit having children around and not being alone, feeling themselves more useful for looking after the young ones.. It is a great idea! Hopefully, the idea / model will spread 😊
I love this! I worked in a nursing home when I was a teenager and saw how the residents got so excited when they saw little ones. I think Halloween was their favorite day. I always dreamed that if I ever had enough money, I would open a center and have them together. I am happy to see my dream come true even if I didn't make it come alive.
That's the way our great-great-great grandrelatives used to live - three generations together, instilling mutual love, understanding, compassion, passing on traditions, the feeling of belonging. Thank you so much for your amazing example! Hope it to be viral not only on youtube but, more importantly, in our daily life. Back to normal natural way of bringing up kids and meeting our elderly years! ❤❤❤
This should be implemented in every country. My grandfather has dementia and watching him slip is so sad. I just moved upstairs from him and he gets so excited to see people but 🤷🏻♂️
This is an awesome idea. It's going back to the old days. When grandparents lived with their children. They weren't turned out to rot in nursing homes.
Absolutely love this. Takes a community to bring up a child. Lots of kids don't have those generations in their families around them. Its fab for both sides and keeps the elderly active too. 🥰
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was thinking about this. For the children’s sake I really hope they do. It seems like a nice idea, kids interacting with old people but the reality is that there might be s*x offenders among them. For the kids safety they better do background checks and keep a very close eye on them.
They made a study about this in Germany and made it into a tv documentary , too. They showed that the old people had great health benefit from this, getting motivated to move more. At the end they were more stable and could walk longer distances without a cane or rollator. Furthermore they got to interact more socialy and their psychological health improved greatly, too. The children on the other hand learned to be more social and considerate of others. Arguments between each other diminished. Sadly it was only a experiment for half a year. But most old people stayed in contact with the children families and became like adopted grandparents.
They did a TV program on this in Australia a few years ago. It was done as an experiment with the children and the elderly carefully picked and paired. They had planned activities which helped to get the elderly more active and the children getting encouraged to do tasks as well as the children encouraging their elderly partners to do tasks. The children and their families kept in touch and visited their partners after the experience was over. They did a follow up later and repeated the experiment using teenagers.
Im from a very large extended family and we have wonderful relationships across the generations, and love each other and see each other as best we can as we live sometimes long distances apart, and keep in touch using online tools, from the little ones to our Aunties and Uncles in their 90s. Not everyone would enjoy this set up, but so, so many people will and benefit from those relationships. Its fabulous!
In India even till last 10 years it was pretty common to live in joint households with your Dada Dadi(elders( as we blindly follow western culture from which we can learn a lot ..We lost the beautiful family setup to just individual greed....Bring Back the 90s
This used to be the norm in USA when most industries were scattered about the country in small cities and towns. If you went to these now-nearly empty small towns in the countryside; you would see that there are large houses where multiple generations lived together. (These are now broken up into apartments) Nowadays young people have to relocate to big cities to find a decent-paying job. In big cities the cost of living is too high for an extended family to be in one big apartment A little apartment next to a bigger one is unusual because most apartment buildings are constructed with uniform units on each floor.
It has been discovered that children makes old people feel abit younger. Which makes sense, since the atmosphere in an old home is slow/sad. For the children they learn empathy and experince from the old people. When my daughter was in daycare, every Wednesday, 3-5 kids went to the nearest retirement home, which i think was a greate thing.
When I was younger, our choir class would go to the retirement home next to our school and put on performances for the elderly folk. They loved it and we certainly loved the attention and praise 😂
This news piece was exceptionally reported and produced! I love it! Thank you! Having intergenerational relationships enriches everyone’s lives! I’m so happy that this wonderful idea became a reality and to see the heartwarming benefits from this!
That is such a wonderful idea, i wonder of something like this is possible in Germany, where both elderly care and kindergarten care is sorely lacking atm
My kids' school has an intergenerational learning day every couple of weeks with the senior center. They'll read books or play games and eat lunch together.
As long as the residents are screened properly retired geriatric nurse this patients can become aggressive violent may mistake the children for their own best of luck as long as everyone is safe and happy
Yes, they should screen all the patients and staff to see if any criminal records, as well as medical history of violence....especially if there is evidence of Abuse to children.
Thank you for this project❤ and it may sound maybe crazy... But, did you ever consider to connect elderly houses and orphanages where the small children are? That could bring even more joy and delight. Especially for those abandoned children and elderly.
It's a great idea if you select the elderly well. No children need contact with old ped@p or prejudice, after all, bad people also get old. Both generations gain a lot from this interaction =).
The elderly are some of the loneliest chunks of the population. Loneliness is no good for their health and it makes me sad to see them that way. It’s good for the kids to be with older generations to teach them and let them model behaviors. I wasn’t surprised to see that the kids are calmer with the older residents around. It’s also good for the elderly. It keeps them young, it helps them move, it helps them feel some of that enthusiasm and for exercice like they showed, it gives them good motivation. I think this is a great model 👍🏽
This is fantastic! Where my dad was, children would come from the local school. They would play board games like snakes and ladders- dad used to laugh at how they would cheat😂😂😂😂 so much fun!
This mimics how we evolved to be as a species, with vulnerable people kept together, not isolated for maximum corporate efficiency and maximising shareholder value
I wish the US would do this. My parents passed away when I was young and my husband only has his mom who lives in another state. Our 4 year old has no aunts uncles or grandparents except 1 that she sees maybe once a year. She would benefit so much from this.
They need this in America. The residents in nursing and assisted living are lonely at times and this would brighten up those places and help teach children to communicate. It would help dementia patients the most they love children.
This is wonderfully getting the pensioners to help teach the young ones and help them to feel young and still contribute to learning its wonderfully love it
This is so good. This should be an option for every pensioners/elderly and kids. An extremely good way to make elderly be included and staying active and kids being exposed to smh new.
Grand parents,Parents and Grandchildren living together was common in India ,which avoided many new age organisations like Kindergarden,Psychologist for Loniliness,old age home,Summer camps for kids,Googling for ever small doubts which was earlier done by elders,No Divorses as the Couples Living was foreseen by elders to corrected & counselled by elders when one person goes away from marriage track. Now all the services have to be paid ,either private or government is organising it.
