Lessons Learned From 11 Countries on Programs Promoting Intergenerational Solidarity

• Published date: 01 April 2021
• Author: Cheryl Zlotnick,Marjolein Broese Groenou,Annamaria Orban,Trudy Corrigan,Susana Coimbra,Zviad Kirtava,Clare Holdsworth,Dolors Comas‐d'Argemir,Laura Aliprant,Carole Gadet,George Pavia
• Date: 01 April 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12482

C ZUniversity of Haifa

M B  GVrije Universiteit

A OBudapest University of Technology and Economics

T CInstitute of Education

S CFaculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto

Z KTbilisi State Medical University and Partners for Health NGO

C HKeele University

D C-’AUniversitat Rovira i Virgili

OTHER WORKGROUP NO. 3 MEMBERS

L ANational and Kapodistrian University of Athens

C GFounder of “Ensemble demain”; Intergénérationel Approaches in Education

G PMinistry for Family Affairs and Social Solidarity

Lessons Learned From 11 Countries on Programs

Promoting Intergenerational Solidarity

Objective: The goal of this project was to

develop a systematic framework through which

interventions promoting intergenerational

solidarity in 11 countries could be assessed.

Background: Although intergenerational

solidarity—the exchange of material, social,

and emotional support and care between

family generations—benets both the coun-

try’s economic well-being (macro-level) and

Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health & Welfare

Sciences, 199 Abba Khushi, Haifa, Mt Carmel, Israel

(czlotnick@univ.haifa.ac.il).

Key Words: country comparisons, culture, intergenerational

solidarity, interventions, well-being.

the individual’s physical, mental, and social

well-being (micro-level), decreasing inter-

generational solidarity is evident in many

industrialized countries. Interventions promot-

ing intergenerational solidarity are increasingly

being developed, but few are described in the

literature. Moreover, no unifying framework

describing them exists.

Method: Representatives from 11 countries

convened to identify interventions promot-

ing intergenerational solidarity. After several

meetings, a unifying framework was created.

Representatives selected a convenience sample

of programs and abstracted information based

on the framework.

670Family Relations 70 (April 2021): 670–681

DOI:10.1111/fare.12482