Article December 17, 1990 Issue

POSITIVE PRESS

J. B. Forsthoffer

The Salisbury News and Advertiser

From The Salisbury News and Advertiser (Maryland), May 17, 1990

"Nursing Home Meets Latchkey Needs" by J. B. Forsthoffer

"The Salisbury Nursing Home's Intergenerational Learning Program links elderly residents with elementary school children....

"The pilot program has become a national model ....

"According to Anthony Grieco, administrator of Salisbury Nursing Home, the program developed out of both the needs of nursing home residents and of young school children who go home to empty houses.

"The basic premise of the program is quite simple. 'We link up elderly residents with students from the East Salisbury School in an effort to promote development, ... growth, and foster ... respect on the part of the young for the elderly and to promote good will,' explains Mr. Grieco. ...

"'I don't think [the young people] have the same barriers that we have as adults,' says Mr. Grieco. "They approach life much more innocently. They're able to go up to someone with a disability and approach them as a person, where the first thing an adult sees is a handicap.'"

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