This 29 year old service-learning, intergenerational health promotion program pairs 50-70 students each semester to work on a one-to-one basis with older adults. The latter fall into 4 categories: Community-residing, a sub-group labeled the foreign-born, VA Nursing Home residents nearly all of whom use wheel chairs, and the developmentally challenged. Students-volunteers reflect upon their weekly interaction in small group discussion supervised by former “”staffers,”" analysis papers, and in their weekly Individual History Report. The AHDP has spread to 15 other colleges and universities.
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