So I have been watching on ABC iView the nursing home for Teenagers and I am seeing that it is a really sweet series and it’s amazing what they can do.
However, be prepared for the tears when one of the older members passes away, and they have to stop the program but we are seeing that this is the restoration of what we call society, I can remember when I was little I was in Brownies and Guides and until about primary school we went to church and did Sunday school. So we were exposed to older people and that was the way it was and we see that people needed to be aware of this, as well as my sisters had a really great game plan when we didn’t have enough kids for Sunday school, so we did what my sister had this worked out really well that we had a birthday or some other achievement every month and we would crawl under the pews and would tell the older people this and we would generally score sweets and we would happily sit at the side of the alter as we generally sat at the back and we would happily, sit and eat them and they had quiet boxes for the children. We don’t see memories like this anymore since we are spending more time at home and that technology has changed the landscape in that we don’t really interact with people anymore and we are seeing stratification of society. So younger people are being pushed into programs with younger people and facilitated by adults, and we don’t see things like Lions, Zona, or even the CWA being attractive anymore to people, and they are struggling to get youth members. However, post-pandemic thankfully this is starting to change and we are seeing a return to Guides, Scouts, and other youth groups or even things like the SES ( state emergency services) or other intergenerational services such as the men’s shed, or women’s craft circles, or volunteering services.
We are also seeing that we don’t really have interactions that I had with older people so things like guides as well where we had a variety of people picking up and dropping off girls as well as assessing us for badges.
We see that people don’t have this in society, anymore due to some complex factors as well, such as technology, the fear of being accused of inappropriate behavior, and the need for young people to have a part-time job to be able to even get ahead in the modern world and we see that people that do have exposure to older people generally do, better, when exposed to different generations.
This is where things like having a good formal program come into play, with ratios that are appropriate to the age group of the children involved and being able to trust the older people as well.
As one of the parents of the teens in the program pointed out technology has had a major role in, stratifying society. We used to know the local seniors and looked out for them so we would take the mail in, or the washing and let the local caregiver or blue nurse know if there was anything funky going on.
We are also seeing that people are more wary of each other due to Covid, and this has really changed things as well. However, we are starting to see things like this program become more widespread, as well as people with disabilities, are included in the day programs, and we see that people need to be accepting of our limitations as we grow older and we are seeing that interacting with the younger generations do keep you young.
It’s a sweet series and it does show that we can connect to people as well, as being able to have basic offline skills, such as reading a map, being able to hold a conversation, and able to make a cup of tea or coffee without a coffee machine and we see that people are losing basic skills as well. Like being able to change a tire, being able to navigate with basic directions, or even count back change when working a cashiering job so we see that people need to be able to understand these basic offline skills as well as using a landline phone or a radio instead of the phone and this becomes an issue when these basic skills are lost to time and this is where having these connections become great as well so these skills aren’t lost.
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