PURPOSE Experience Corps (EC) represents a high-intensity, intergenerational civic engagement activity where older adults serve as mentors and tutors in elementary schools. Although high-intensity volunteer opportunities are designed to enhance the health and well being of older adult volunteers, little is known about the negative and positive aspects of volunteering unique to intergenerational...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY We assessed whether a shared site intergenerational care program informed by contact theory contributed to more desirable social behaviors of elders and children during intergenerational programming than a center with a more traditional programming approach that lacks some or all of the contact theory tenets. DESIGN AND METHODS We observed 59 elder and child participants ...

The aim of this practice report is to discuss the implementation a service-learning module developed support psychological wellbeing postgraduate students and older adults in community, with view fostering their connection tackling loneliness both populations. module, ‘Self-Identity, Intergenerational Intercultural Learning’ (SIIL), was offered enrolled Mental Health Studies Master Science at I...

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the intergenerational correlation in IQ scores, examining not just average correlations but also how this rela...