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Today in Focus

What happens when you put a nursery in a care home?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

At Belong Chester, residents spend their days with nursery-age children. What effect does it have on the wellbeing of both groups? Helen Pidd reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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This is the Guardian. Today, caring for the very young and the very old, what can we learn from intergenerational living?

0:17.0

Today in Focus is

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Focus is supported by Better Help.

0:29.0

Here's a question.

0:31.0

If you had an extra hour in your day, what would you do with it?

0:34.8

Watch TV?

0:36.4

Read a book?

0:37.4

Meet up with a friend?

0:39.4

Maybe a little nap?

0:41.6

A lot of us spend our lives wishing we had more time but for what? Perhaps to best

0:47.6

answer that you need to work out what's truly important to you then make that a priority. Therapy can help you work out what's most

0:57.3

important to you. It isn't just for those who've unfortunately experienced trauma in their lives.

1:03.0

Therapy can be helpful for learning positive coping skills and for setting boundaries.

1:08.0

It can empower you to be the best version of yourself.

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With over a thousand therapists in the UK already,

1:15.0

better help can provide access to mental health professionals with a wide variety of

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expertise in mental health. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at better help.com slash TIF.

1:28.0

That's Better H-E-L-P.com slash T-I-F. The Longchester is an intergenerational community right in the heart of Chester and I spent what turned out to be a completely magical day there recently.

1:56.0

One, two,

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strange,

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waiting. Really? looking into the care sector and how one home is doing things differently by combining

2:15.2

care for its older people with young toddlers.

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