The most inspirational program on TV this year. Have you watched it yet?
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- A unique social experiment that brings together elderly people in a retirement community with a group of 4-year-olds. Could this encounter between young and old help transform the lives of the elderly?
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Beautiful.
Thank you! Cheers!
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing. 🙏
My pleasure!
Bless your heart, you are obviously a caring and thinking man. You have great ideas.
hi from Canada , the clip made me reach for a tissue so i know when i am able to watch the whole segment its a box of tissue sooo inspiring , thank you for sharing this ! 8-)
Wow, thank you
What a great experience! They need to do this at old folks homes and make a difference too!
Yes, a village communty again
It's not "inevitable" that old folks end up in homes. There are a surprising number of people who live to 100 or more who stay in their own home. Sometimes with family, sometimes with the help with paid caregivers.
It's also not inevitable that getting old means getting sick or developing dementia.
Also, it's not "an easy fix" to bring children into an elderly care facility. The program supervisor needs to know how to structure the time together, how to match temperaments, how to "sell" the program to the residents and so on.
And there's so much more that needs to change in these places -- especially the nutritional content of the food they're fed. Unfortunately, most retirement villages and nursing homes, especially, are for-profit businesses and so they cut corners wherever possible. Nursing homes also over medicate the elderly so there's less need for staff to interact with the clients and less need to offer stimulating activities that build inter-connections between the residents and the staff.
Most of us also don't eat healthy or get enough exercise into our days and so we set ourselves up for disability in old age.
America is awful to its elderly citizens. We look at old age with fear and so we don't like to see or be with elderly people.
I remember my mother saying she didn't want to move to a senior citizens community because, "I don't want to be around a bunch of old people." She was in her 70s at the time. But she was right - we do best living with and around people of all ages.
My mother died on Dec. 23, 2021 at a nursing facility, after falling several times and wasting away to skin and bones in a "memory care unit" that charges $9,000 a month to live there. This should not happen in America, or anywhere else in the world, for that matter. A lot needs to change.
Couldn't agree more with what you said. So sorry for your loss
@@MarkEvansPresents Thank you, Mark. The hard part, too, is that children put their parents in these places in hopes that they're making the best decision for Mom or Dad or one of their siblings and some of these places take advantage of what's often a lack of choice. But on the other hand, you have people like the ones shown here, who are trying to do something to change the situation.