Intergenerational learning centre Dwarka, New Delhi

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.