Intergenerational Health Review: Learning about Older Adults’ Reminiscence through a College Course Project

ABSTRACT

Intergenerational Health Review (IHR) postulates that reminiscence of personal history is a reconciling process beneficial to individuals since it helps to find meaning in life and gain a better sense of well-being. This paper presents a college course project, within which students documented reminiscence stories in older adults’ lives based on an event of recovery from illness. Evaluation of findings indicated that the pilot IHR project benefited students and older participants. Future studies should investigate how a college project like IHR can work on promoting the goal of intrinsic motivation rather than just focusing on grades.

KEYWORDS:

• Health review
• intergenerational program
• college project
• reminiscence

Acknowledgments

We would like express our gratitude to the older participants and students in the project. We are also grateful to Ms. Lesley He, who contributed her time and generous support to the study.

Additional information

Funding

This work is supported by BNU-HKBU United International College under [UIC Research Grant].