Together Old & Young to Build All Age Friendly Communities!

Through sharing experiences young children and older adults have fun, learn from each other and develop meaningful relationships

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Building the capacities and skills of early childhood and social care practitioners to design intergenerational activities

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Together Old and Young – TOY: young children and older adults learning together

The TOY project was initiated and is promoted by International Child Development Initiatives - ICDI.

The purpose of the TOY Programme is to promote intergenerational learning and create new possibilities for senior citizens and young children to learn together and benefit from each others’ company. We believe that this is more important than ever before across the world. People are living longer but older adults and young children are having less and less contact with each other. Parents and grandchildren are migrating to cities and countries far away from grandparents. >> read more

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The Immeasurable Gains of Intergenerational Learning

Working closely with families and communities is an important part of early childhood education. Therefore, intergenerational learning would seem to be a natural ‘fit’ for early years services, something that struck Bernie Pentony, an early year’s educator in Ireland.

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An intergenerational perspective from the Philippines

“We did not realize that our everyday lives are worthy of being studied”

Multi-generational households are a feature of life in the Philippines. Drawing inspiration from Filipino psychology (Sikolohiyang Pilipino), Czarecah Oropilla reflects on intergenerational relations in the Philippines with a particular focus on young children and older adults.