Many children of today have little opportunity to interact with the elderly, especially in face of the COVID-19 epidemic situation which reduces the physical social gathering. Most of our children live as a nuclear family given the residence size.
Some children visit their grandparents over the weekends while some children have their grandparents take care of their daily needs like bringing them to school, preparing their dinner, etc.
Our teachers came together to brainstorm for ideas to educate children the needs of the elderly. From interviewing the center attendants in their sixties to understand their life priorities as elderly to learning the reduced mobility due to weaker bones and joints, children could role play as elderly in their play and could empathize and relate better with the elderly around them.
