Intergenerational Programs: Imperatives, Strategies, Impacts, Trends

Summary

Table of Contents

• Preface
• A History of Intergenerational Programs
• Part I: Imperatives
• Introduction
• Historical Imperative
• Historical Trends in Intergenerational Contacts
• Developmental Imperative
• Child Development and Intergenerational Programming
• Young Adulthood to Old Age: Looking at Intergenerational Possibilities From a Human Development Perspective
• Cross-Cultural Imperative
• The Hispanic Elderly and the Intergenerational Family
• Intergenerational Exchange in Developing Countries
• Societal Imperative
• The Intergenerational Movement: A Social Imperative The Social Policy Implications of Intergenerational Exchange
• Public Policy Imperative
• Intergenerational Programming in Public Policy
• Political Imperative for Intergenerational Programs?
• Part II: Strategies
• Introduction
• Developing an Intergenerational Program
• Training and Education for Intergenerational Activities: An Agenda for the Future
• Evaluation of Intergenerational Programs: Why and How?
• Linking Systems: A Systems Approach to Intergenerational Programming
• Exemplary Intergenerational Programs
• Part III: Impacts
• Introduction
• Intergenerational Programs--Impact on Attitudes
• The Effects of an Adoptive Grandparent Program on Youth and Elderly Participants
• Research Evaluation of a Foster Grandparent Program
• Intergenerational Program Research to Refine Theory and Practice
• Part IV: Trends
• Introduction
• Health Care: An Intergenerational Issue
• A Case for Intergenerational Child Care
• The Intergenerational Movement and Its Relationship to Children and Families: Interview With Margaret McFarland, PhD
• Subject Index