Little girl in aged care facility

Ageless Play

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Ageless Play is an intergenerational playgroup program that seeks to bring seniors together with children and their families, supporting communities and nurturing relationships through play.

Child and Adult playing music together

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Older adult with child

Overview

Ageless Play offers a unique opportunity for the young and young at heart to come together to play. Sessions are delivered in aged-care facilities and retirement homes. Parents, residents, and children meet and play together.

Ageless Play playgroups:

  • are mutually beneficial to all participants
  • promote children's social and physical development
  • provide parental peer support networks
  • enable isolated residents to reconnect with and be valued by their community