Nightingale House is an intergenerational care facility set up in September 2017 in Wandsworth, London (UK), which hosts a nursery and a care home on the same site. This allows the children and the older residents to interact on a daily basis and enables the care home to integrate intergenerational exchanges into the delivery of older people’s care.
Those interactions have proven to have a very positive impact on older people’s physical and mental health, while also improving children’s empathy and communication skills.
Read more in this newspaper article
As highlighted in an article published by Age UK, promoting intergenerational care has become essential in today’s society, where the lack of interactions between different age groups fosters mistrust, suspicion and misunderstanding between generations.
