Intergenerational Programs: Imperatives, Strategies, Impacts, Trends, Volume 20, Issues 3-4Pioneers in the field explore the compelling need for intergenerational programming and the profound and positive impact it would have on our society. The focus of this exciting and timely volume is on the mutually beneficial interaction between young and old. In a clear and cohesive manner, professionals who have studied and worked with intergenerational programming over the last three decades address the elements that are integral to the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmed exchanges between generations. |
Contents
A History of Intergenerational Programs | 1 |
Introduction | 19 |
DEVELOPMENTAL IMPERATIVE | 33 |
Looking at Intergenerational | 45 |
CROSSCULTURAL IMPERATIVE | 55 |
Intergenerational Exchange in Developing Countries | 67 |
SOCIETAL IMPERATIVE | 79 |
The Social Policy Implications of Intergenerational Exchange | 91 |
Why and How? | 147 |
A Systems Approach | 165 |
Exemplary Intergenerational Programs | 173 |
Introduction | 183 |
The Effects of an Adoptive Grandparent Program on Youth | 195 |
Research Evaluation of a Foster Grandparent Program | 205 |
Intergenerational Program Research to Refine Theory | 217 |
Introduction | 233 |
PUBLIC POLICY IMPERATIVE | 101 |
Political Imperative for Intergenerational Programs? | 111 |
Introduction | 117 |
A Case for Intergenerational Child Care | 239 |
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