Research, projects and papers

Always under construction...

Gallery of Works

Gardening with elder My friend L. was raised on the farm and enjoyed planting and fertilizing these seedlings with us.	Rainbow Filled Cake I asked Lily what she wanted on the inside of her birthday cake, her reply was "rainbows!".. Success!	Eclipse banner One afternoon, the elders and I made chalk moons in the different phases to learn about the upcoming eclipse, and made them into this wall hanging over our table.
Collage board in progress A collage board being worked on by a foster and their adopted elder	creativechaos An elder putting things on their collage board	synergylogo My design, to demonstrate how all aspects work together
Eclipse party Here we are under our eclipse banner, eating moon cakes we made.	Gelli print One of our foster/elder combos made this lovely gelli print	Beading Making necklaces to hang our name tags off of
oregonforest My back yard	invention game memory game for dementia groups	lily with eclipse cake kid with cake, adding the oreo cookie to the zucchini cake to make the moon eclipse was her idea.
Gelli prints Various gelli prints from the intergenerational group internship	Group beading project Beading with my older friends, 2017

WHO Aging Friendly Communities

According to the World Health Organization, the world's population of people aged 60 and over will quadruple by 2050.

In a world where productivity is designated to the young and the old are often neglected or abused, the implications of this figure are staggering.

Every community will be faced with this "gray tide" in one way or another and we need to come together and determine best strategies to creating an age-friendly world. Then we need to bring our ideas to the policy makers and create the change we want to see, now rather than later.

Check out these resources from the World Health Organization

WHO: Towards an Age-Friendly World

We can all identify a change we want to see, right? Here's what communities are doing around the world to make their places more age friendly.

Global Age-Friendly Cities: A Guide (English)

PDF Guide to creating an age-friendly environment in your community.

How To Add Your City To the Age-Friendly List - WHO

Overview of the process and membership documents to join WHO network.

AARP Network of Age Friendly Cities and Communities Toolkit

Complete listing of all a city needs to get on the AARP Network.

Checklist of essential features of age-friendly communities - WHO

Simply, defined set of items that an age-friendly city needs to have, such as affordable public transportation and available clean and handicap accessible bathrooms.

Engaging Community At The Library

Free social activities are an important aspect of any community and usually, our best source of programs already in place is our local libraries.

However, sometimes the old saying "If you build it, they will come.." simply isn't true. Social researchers are looking into ways to increase the amount of people that go to the library and to figure out what projects are most needed and wanted.

The Power of Community Outreach Meeting the Demands of the Growing Senior Population

NLS National Library Service

Sandy Intergenerational

Research, projects and papers

Always under construction...

Gallery of Works

Gardening with elder

My friend L. was raised on the farm and enjoyed planting and fertilizing these seedlings with us.

Rainbow Filled Cake

I asked Lily what she wanted on the inside of her birthday cake, her reply was "rainbows!".. Success!

Eclipse banner

One afternoon, the elders and I made chalk moons in the different phases to learn about the upcoming eclipse, and made them into this wall hanging over our table.

Collage board in progress

A collage board being worked on by a foster and their adopted elder

creativechaos

An elder putting things on their collage board

synergylogo

My design, to demonstrate how all aspects work together

Eclipse party

Here we are under our eclipse banner, eating moon cakes we made.

Gelli print

One of our foster/elder combos made this lovely gelli print

Beading

Making necklaces to hang our name tags off of

oregonforest

My back yard

invention game

memory game for dementia groups

lily with eclipse cake

kid with cake, adding the oreo cookie to the zucchini cake to make the moon eclipse was her idea.

Gelli prints

Various gelli prints from the intergenerational group internship

Group beading project

Beading with my older friends, 2017

WHO Aging Friendly Communities

Engaging Community At The Library

Free social activities are an important aspect of any community and usually, our best source of programs already in place is our local libraries.

However, sometimes the old saying "If you build it, they will come.." simply isn't true. Social researchers are looking into ways to increase the amount of people that go to the library and to figure out what projects are most needed and wanted.

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The Power of Community Outreach Meeting the Demands of the Growing Senior Population