Channel 4 series shows benefits of interaction between the young and elderly

A Channel 4 series ‘Old People’s Home for 4 year olds’ has demonstrated how social contact with younger people can create a better quality of life for the elderly. The two-part series investigated what happened when a nursery group share their classroom with 11 pensioners for 11 weeks, with four-year-olds and 84-year-olds working and playing together. […]