How Intergenerational Friendships Improve Our Lives

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

For many Californians, developing meaningful relationships with people significantly older or younger than them can be difficult. We live in age-segregated environments that make it challenging to encounter – much less connect with – people in different phases of life. Yet, experts have found that an exchange of perspectives and experiences across generational divides can decrease the health risks of loneliness and social isolation for older adults – and boost life satisfaction and learning in both directions. We’ll explore how we can form cross-generational friendships that enrich our lives and rethink a society that segregates members by age. Guests: Kathleen Toohill, writer and friend of Sukari Addison Sukari Addison, octogenarian and friend of Kathleen Toohill Laura Newberry, reporter and writer of the "Group Therapy" weekly newsletter, Los Angeles Times Sylvia Vargas, director of community engagement programs, Openhouse SF, which is a non-profit organization serving older LGBTQ adults Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.4	Coming up on Forum, how cross-generational friendships
0:56.1	improve our lives. Meaningful relationships with people significantly older or younger than us
1:01.5	make us healthier, less lonely, and more optimistic about the future, studies find. But connecting
1:07.8	deeply as friends across generational divides is difficult in our often age-segregated social groups.
1:14.1	This hour, we'll meet and hear from friends of vastly different ages and what we can do to cultivate more of these kinds of relationships.
1:20.6	Are you in a cross-generational friendship?
1:22.7	What does it give you that perhaps other friendships don't?
1:26.1	We'd love to hear from you after this news.
1:40.3	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Sukari Addison and Kathleen Two Hill are close friends. They like to take walks in San Francisco talking about their families, their travels, their relationships.
1:51.2	Sukari and Kathleen also have an age difference of 55 years between them. Sukari is 88 years old. Kathleen 33.
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