They may be hard to come by, but there are proven benefits of interacting with and developing relationships with people much older or younger. In fact, intergenerational friendships open us up to all ...

Students developing relationships with adults who are close in age to their grandparents (or older) is more than a quaint ...

As a 21-year-old college student, one of my closest friends is not another 20-something-year-old student from campus but rather a 75-year-old woman living with dementia, whom I met while volunteering ...

Southern Oregon University is building a retirement facility on campus. Students and professors are working to figure out how to create spaces to bring college students and older learners together.

The landscape of friendship continues to evolve, with intergenerational connections emerging as powerful catalysts for personal development and social understanding. These relationships, spanning ...

As time passes, friendships are found in the most unlikely of places. Happenstance and without agenda. Often, people you gravitate toward don’t fit the mold of past relationships. Shared passions and ...

Meaningful intergenerational relationships — relationships between young and old — are a powerful, prevalent, but overlooked resource in the United States. Purposeful interactions across generations ...

The intergenerational bond between grandparents and grandchildren forms a vital component of familial support systems and societal well‐being. Contemporary research highlights that these relationships ...

"Grandparents are not a back-up team," psychologist and author Terri Apter insists in an interview about her new book Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations. "They are a team in ...

K4Connect supports intergenerational connection, reduces isolation for residents and students, and helps Vincentian ...