Intergenerational programme in a care home co-located with a nursery
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Intergenerational programme in a care home co-located with a nursery: an in-depth qualitative study
IRAS ID
298768
Contact name
Suzanne Beeke
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University College London
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 9 months, 24 days
Research summary
This is an in-depth qualitative study of one long-term care (LTC) setting 'Nightingale Hammerson' which is co-located with an early years (EY) setting 'Nightingale Apples and Honey' for children aged 2-5. We will refer to it as 'Nightingale'.
This project investigates how intergenerational practices are organised within this setting, how residents with and without dementia, children and facilitators of intergenerational activities socially interact among themselves and how participants experience these intergenerational sessions, what they think and feel about them. By intergenerational activities, sessions or programmes we mean set times in the daily schedule when residents and children spend time together, interact and share play and learning activities facilitated by other adults, eg. nursery or care home staff, volunteers.
The project is made up of participant observations in the care home, video recordings of intergenerational and recreational sessions and interviews with adults and play/book-based conversations with children.
Nightingale is a co-located setting in London, in which a care home shares premises with a nursery. The nursery is located on the same grounds as the care home but getting between the two buildings requires a one-minute outdoor walk. Nightingale offers accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care. All adults are Jewish and over 65 years of age. There are 215 beds across six self-contained “households”, three of which provide specialist nursing care, including dementia care. Children attending the nursery are 2-5 years old and come from diverse ethnic, cultural, racial and religious backgrounds. Intergenerational activities between the nursery and the care home are part of the weekly schedule at Nightingale. Before the pandemic, there was also a baby and toddler intergenerational group running at the care home, to which local families, childminders and nannies from the local community would bring their babies and toddlers to spend time with the residents.
REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
21/IEC08/0037
Date of REC Opinion
21 Dec 2021
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion