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Clare Littleton, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Healthy Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia

‘We need to look after our grand-friends’: how childcare in aged care can help young and old

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An experimental aged-care model in South Australia, where purpose-built independent retirement living apartments are co-located with an early learning centre, is seeking to foster connections between residents and children.

In this model, one of the first of its kind in Australia, older adults live on site and pre-school children (aged between three and six) learn there, enabling daily interactions.

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