What’s a nursing home combined with a childcare center? A hopeful model for the future of aging

IDEAS.TED.COM Mar 14, 2019 / Marc Freedman (iStock)

Imagine a place for the elderly that’s also filled with the sounds of kids playing. Marc Freedman goes to Singapore to investigate a new model for intergenerational living. Sister Geraldine Tan, an energetic woman in her 60s, speaks rapidly and is given to sweeping gestures. She wears the flowing […]

What’s a nursing home combined with a childcare center? A hopeful model for the future of aging

Sister Geraldine — trained in the hospice movement in the UK and now the executive director of the St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged and Hospice in Singapore — is not easily overwhelmed.

St. Joseph’s is not your typical nursing home…. read this interesting article in full here.

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