Old age and youth are part of a whole, the cycle of the life !
To absolutely want to dissociate them does not make sense.
In the United States, in the city of Seattle, this border between the beginning and the end of life has been abolished.
How? 'Or' What ? By opening a nursery school within a retirement home!
A very nice idea, isn't it? Watch:
This initiative took place at Providence Mount St Vincent.
There, reside 400 elderly people in the midst of a whole host of children aged 3, 4 and 5 years old.
A film, made to seek funding, shows the daily life of these very old and very young people.
It highlights what is marvelous when the 2 extremes of life come together daily.
Watch the trailer that showcases this moving concept:
This initiative has only advantages. Both for children and for the elderly.
Children give a lot of joy and happiness to older people. But older people bring a lot to the younger generation as well.
Thanks to the nursery school installed in the retirement home, the isolation of the elderly is finally broken.
They are in contact with a string of children full of life.
Cries, laughter, tears animate the retirement home. Children love stories.
They like to talk, listen, tell and exchange with retirees, spontaneously and simply.
Moved to tears, one of the residents testifies:
"When you love someone and that person gives you something, you feel it deep in your heart..."
The elders, for their part, listen to the children who tell them of their little misfortunes and great joys as toddlers. The elderly advise them, give their opinion, make comments to them.
Children benefit every day from an invaluable treasure:wisdom, experience, the knowledge of the elders.
They have so much to learn and these elderly people have so much to pass on! Especially since they have the time and motivation to do so.
Everyone is enriched by contact with the other and it is the whole society that emerges stronger.
With the lengthening of the lifespan, each of us can find ourselves in the situation of one of these retirees.
Aging without fear of loneliness and the feeling of uselessness, isn't that what everyone hopes for?
If the prospect of aging were also a bearer of positive values, wouldn't our current life be lighter?
In search of eternal youth, our modern societies relegate old age behind walls so as not to see it.
They hope to escape death. This is obviously nonsense.
But it is never too late to do well and live together:young and old, with each other.
