Old Age
Best Ideas
- Children legally obliged to support elderly parents
- Gold medals for caring for old parents
- Old age pensions paid by robots
- A village for midwives and the retired
- Inter-generational home sharing
- Innovation centres run by elders
Social Inventions
- Exchanges between old people's homes
- Multi-media Memory Boxes
- Drum circles for the elderly
- A retirement home for spiritual seekers
Book of Visions
- Is ageing necessary?
- One's age is one's private property
- Marketed drug is a youth serum
- Pre-Retirement Day Release
- A movement for holidays in the sun
- New Horizons Trust
- Dark Horse Venture for Over 60s
- Help for Pensioners from the Retired (HelPeR)
- Grannycare shops
- Bringing elderly people into schools
- Linking young and old
- Grandparents for latch-key kids
- Adoptive grandparents for single parents
- Elderly sharing housing with younger housemates
- Care and Repair
- Mother/Father Swap
- The Pet Fostering Service Scotland
- The indoor milk indicator
- Rehearsing for old age
- Touch and teddy bears for the elderly
- Visits to the elderly from P.A.T. Dogs
- Bedtime service
- National Bed Line
- Checklist of questions for residential homes
- Residents rule - OK?
- Homes for the elderly who share same interests
- Group homes for elderly people from black and racial minorities
- Nature reserves with homes for the retired
- Housing for carers
- Magic Me
- Memory Box personal museums
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