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The New York Times: How Two Lonely Generations Are Helping Each Other Heal

elderly woman and teenage boy cleaning
 

In this New York Times piece, Richard Schiffman talks with Rick Weissbourd about how young adults and the elderly could be less isolated if they had more contact.

“The elderly have so much to share with young people — wisdom about love, work, friendship, mortality and many other things...young people have so much to share with the elderly about a rapidly changing world — not just technology, but new and important ways of thinking about race and racism, justice, sexuality and gender and other critical issues,” says Weissbourd.

 

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