Productions
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14 December 1997
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BBC Sctoland Eorpa
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Children's daycare centre in old people's home |
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Two years ago a play group for children between two and four years old, in the Dutch city Leeuwarden, had difficulties to find a new location. Accidentally an old peoples home for lightly demented had space left. The two groups found eachother. Now the young childern visit the "grand parents" on the other side of the hall every day. Since the two generations play togehter the demented old people are more vivid and they even start talking about there own yought. They communicate a lot more and they are less dependant from care because they are occupied with the children. The children are more relaxed and they enjoy all the attention. Usually the childern do not have a lot of contact with their grandparents, because of the project they are more open towards older people. Besides this they develop more social skills and already in an early stage they learn that other individuals think differently. Even the parents of the children are stimulated. They are stimulated to think about there own old age and f.e. about dementia. Since the end of the eighties these kind of projects started to pop up on more locations in Holland.
Activities: screen-item idea, research, set up & planning, accompany filming.