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We Need an Intergenerational Response to the Pandemic

Category: Museums and Aging

“This is what happens when younger people don’t have connections to older people, particularly older people outside their families. They’re less likely to see themselves as part of a greater whole, as part of a social fabric.”

Trent Stamp, CEO, The Eisner Foundation

We were told it was an "old person's disease." When COVID-19 first attacked the United States this spring, it was certainly true that our oldest citizens bore the disproportional brunt of the cases and subsequent deaths. And so we told them to shelter, and stay out of our way, mostly "for their own good."

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