Older adults will soon outnumber children on a global scale.

So in a new series, our brief but spectacular team is exploring our evolving beliefs about age.

Tonight, we bring you the story of Bridge Meadows, an innovative

multi-generational housing community in Oregon that builds connections

between foster youth, their families, and elders.

Here now are three generations of Bridge Meadows residents

on how living in this vibrant community

has transformed their lives for the better. When they told us about this place, literally, we were both kind of looking at each other, like,

is that real?

I'm going to eat you.

They're not right to the oven.

I've been living here in Bridge Meadows for seven years.

Grandma Kathy takes trip on me and my brother when my parents are away.

I still remember the first time they called me Grandma Kathy.

Bridge Meadows is in a generational living space where we have children that have come out of foster homes and then we have elders.

My husband had just passed away in 2016.

We didn't have the income, and so I had signed up for low-income housing.

They told me about Bridge Meadows.

Bridge Meadows gave me the opportunity to come into other people's lives.

We're all set up here in a like a little semi circle.

When we got married, we initially, we were very clear with each other, we wanted to be parents.

Of course we ran into, you know, issues, fertility stuff and that kind of thing and then I was like hey we got an

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