Aged Care Insite Issue 95 | June-July 2016 | Page 11

news Friendships transcend age and differences Sophie and Stan Freya and June Children and aged-care residents form bonds over arts, dance and more. T hey may be separated by decades in age but what they lack in shared technological know-how or life experience they make up for in empathy, kindness and the gift of transgenerational friendship. When a clutch of kids from the Beaconsfield Children’s Hub mix with the seniors at the Villa Maria Catholic Homes (VMCH