|
|
Intergenerational playgroup project
 Playgroup Victoria coordinated a 16-week intergenerational playgroup pilot project at Barwon Health's Percy Baxter Lodges in North Geelong at the end of last year. Playgroup Victoria partnered with the National Ageing Research Institute and Barwon Health to develop the project to improve social inclusion with aged care residents and engage residents with local families by providing a positive environment in a community playgroup setting.
The project was funded by the Victorian Department of Health's Aged Care branch under the 'Count us in! social inclusion for older people living at public sector aged care services'.
Two facilitators were engaged to support the playgroup: a lifestyle officer from the facility and a playgroup faciltator from the City of Greater Geelong. Twelve families and 15 residents were recruited to participate.
The National Ageing Research Institute studied the project before it began, as it progressed and at its end and published its findings in Evaluation of an Intergenerational Playgroup in a Residential Aged Care Facility in April 2010 which you can download here.
Playgroup Victoria has drawn on these findings as well as the experiences of an intergenerational playgroup that has been operating for close to four years to produce Starting Playgroups in Aged Care Facilities as a resource to help families and aged care facilities considering beginning a playgroup. This will be published and available online here soon.
 |
| 
|