Welcome to day 7 of Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Week!

Intergenerational Solidarity and Social Support for Older Adults

What is intergenerational solidarity? Simply put, intergenerational solidarity is "social cohesion between generations". In order to achieve this, we need to reduce barriers between generations including knowledge gaps, ageism, and division of physical spaces for older and younger generations. Our resources today are an introduction to these topics and can help provide some awareness around how important it is for older and younger generations to support each other, especially when it comes to mental health and the role of social support. 

Resources for today's theme: 

• United Nations Development Programme- Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating an equitable world for all ages
• Generations Working Together- check out this organization's website for different levels of free members to access so many resources and CPD training to become accredited for intergenerational work! 
• Generations Working Together- watch this interesting video discussion titled "Age Awareness in the Workplace"- and learn more about generational stereotyping. 
• World Health Organization: Social isolation and loneliness infographics and other resources
• October 7th is Ageism Awareness Day!- Read more about this initiative here from the American Society of Aging
• American Society on Aging- Ageism 2023 Fact Sheet
• Old People's Home for 4-Year-Olds- Watch this video to see the outstanding results of intergenerational programs, like combined preschools and older persons' homes. 
• No2Ageism- a resource website to educate about the way ways ageism impacts our world and can create barriers to intergenerational solidarity and social support. 

Up-Coming Event Announcement

• Join Dr. Tedros, Director-General, WHO and Mr. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Monday 9 October at 12:30 CEST (See this event in your local time) for the launch of the WHO/OHCHR joint publication entitled "Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice”. Click here to see the full event flyer. The event will be moderated by Mr. Daniel Bergner, a highly esteemed writer for The New York Times Magazine. Register here via Zoom.