Abstract:
The advancement in medicine has made the elderly live longer, yet unprepared
lives. The low mortality of infants, also a medical feat is increasing the population
of the younger. The rest of the able population is not receiving any information
about the aged or the process of aging in schools, homes or communities. With all
this growth in population and the change in social and economic trend, the families
are nuclearized and relationships grew distant. This loss of contact between
generations has a negative impact on the mental health and stability of the nation,
in a larger sense. The western countries have devised the concept of
Intergenerational Living or Learning centres which form the middle ground to
revive and build relations between generations. India, where the joint family
system is forgotten and the fading family values need an aid for revival; the
intergenerational centres can be the answer to this surfacing issue in the Indian
context.
