The idea of intergenerational care has also been gaining interest outside the sector. Earlier this month Channel 4 screened the two-part programme Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, which brought together a group of elderly care home residents and pre-school children over several weeks to assess the impact on their health, wellbeing and even life expectancy.
Nottingham nursery Brookhill House Day Nursery was subsequently filmed for a report for BBC East Midlands and interviewed on BBC Radio Nottingham.
The nursery’s partnership with nearby Longmoor Lodge Care Home, which has been going for 18 months, was the idea of nursery manager Jayne Harker, who told Nursery World, ‘We wanted to get out into the community and bridge the generations. A lot of our children sadly don’t have grandparents.’
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