Opinion: Linking elders, youth builds stronger communities

This summer’s multiple deaths in Quebec from the heat wave illustrate the terrible price of social isolation. Most of the victims were elderly, alone and largely without support.
Yet there is a remedy, a strategy that could make a world of difference. Making intergenerational connections — linking elders and young people in a variety of ways — reduces isolation, and enhances a sense of belonging, of community and civic responsibility for both groups.
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