Think Intergenerational: Connecting generations to support communities says that links between the younger and older generations need to be strengthened to stop the growing sense of isolation felt by some younger and older people.
To counter this, and in the wake of last month’s riots, the charity says that communities need to be developed where everyone feels they have a stake.
The report recommends that children’s centres and other community hubs should be encouraged and supported as a way of building strong intergenerational networks.
The Acacia Intergenerational Centre in Merton, south London, is one children’s centre that is already doing this, it says.
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