Intergenerational Exchange

This group identified that men and women over the age of 70 experience frequent feelings of loneliness and lack of social interaction, which can have a huge impact upon their mental health, with negative thoughts such as feeling like a burden being prevalent within this population. Many older people feel there exists an issue around ageism and feel prejudiced and disregarded due to their age. Therefore, this group aimed to create a community-based intervention that would involve regular matched meetings between adolescents and men and women in the older community, where they would be matched based upon interests to allow the older men and women to feel empowered and respected.

During Grand Challenges week, this group created a mind-map, brainstorming the goals they wanted their project to achieve, a poster to be shown at the Friday showcase, alongside a report poster and a sign-up sheet.

Here is the group presentation which they presented on the Friday of Grand Challenges week.