At my facility, we are very lucky to have a great daycare center very nearby. The administration at the facility is very supportive of community involvement and intergenerational activities. We have an ongoing program with the center for their Pre K class to visit our facility 2x a month. I know this is nothing new to any of you. We all know that seeing and interacting with kids will always bring HUGE smiles to our residents faces!
A few years ago, I started a program where our elderly residents "assisted" in the daycare center. Each week two residents would visit the center for an hour. We rotated residents, and we rotated daycare classes. Our residents visited two different classes of 3 year olds ,and the two Pre K classes with the four-five year olds.
The same two residents would visit the same class each time they visited. The program was very successful both for the daycare and for our residents. Family members here loved it as well.
We are no longer able to do this program because of various scheduling reasons, but if you are able, it was pretty special.
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