The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial: Enhancing Generativity via Intergenerational Activity Engagement in Later Life

Discussion:
Results provide the first-ever, large-scale experimental demonstration that participation in an intergenerational civic engagement program can positively alter self-perceptions of generativity in older adulthood.

Source: Journals of Gerontology: Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences - June 10, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Gruenewald, T. L., Tanner, E. K., Fried, L. P., Carlson, M. C., Xue, Q.-L., Parisi, J. M., Rebok, G. W., Yarnell, L. M., Seeman, T. E. Tags: Original Research Report Source Type: research