Primary Education Topic:
Creativity and Lifelong Learning
Other Education Topics:
Caregiving
For all of us who work with an older adult cohort, it is important to ask ourselves each day if we are maintaining a symmetrical or an asymmetrical intergenerational working relationship.
By Sandra von Doetinchem
Recently I read some of Francois Hoepflinger’s intriguing ideas on the nature of intergenerational working relationships between younger and older cohorts in nursing facilities. That publication is in German, but following are my thoughts on what he said and what I’ve found in my studies.