A nursing home in the Netherlands allows students to live rent-free alongside the elderly residents, as part of a project aimed at warding off the negative effects of aging.
In exchange for small, rent-free apartments, the Humanitas retirement home in Deventer, Netherlands, requires students to spend at least 30 hours per month acting as “good neighbors.”
Officials at the nursing home say students do a variety of activities with the older residents, including watching sports, celebrating birthdays and, perhaps most importantly, offering company when seniors fall ill, which helps stave off feelings of disconnectedness.
They are allowed to come and go as they please, as long as they follow one rule: Do not be a nuisance to the elderly.
Similar intergenerational programs exist in Lyons, France and Cleveland, Ohio, according to the International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing. One program that began in Barcelona, Spain in the late 1990s has been replicated in more than 20 cities throughout the country.
I work at a nursing home as a waitress/server and I would do anything to have this ;n; a lot of the residents don’t have family members come visit them so they’re pretty lonely and it’s very disheartening. More places should offer this.
there’s this recurring trope in media of trans women being vindicated and celebrated only in our deaths. leelah alcorn committed suicide because of the horrible horrible treatment she received when she was alive. please don’t say that she “won” as if her suicide was some sort of tactical move in a fight for trans equality, or anything other than a heartbreaking tragedy caused by the rampant transmisogyny of the society we live in
posts like these (@OP) are scary and dangerous, they tell trans youth that suicide is a good way to bring about change. Don’t spread a message like that. I want our youth ALIVE.
im watching a reality show about two naked strangers survivingn on a beach and from day one the man got sunburned and laid down complaining for the rest ofthe week and the woman built shelter and tools and took care of his burns and basically got shit done while he sat in te shadow
he got better and he dug a well until he found water, she warned him not to drink it without finding a way to boil it first, he ignored her and got diarrhea
for starters, she was a cracked gem contained within a construct that managed to direct her will through said construct to the outside world
then she was a broken gem that managed to use her powers to make simulacrums of the crystal gems that could stand on par with them
and then, as a healed gem, she held back one of the oldest (that we know of) and most powerful (that we know of) gems in the series as one half of a fusion, exercising her particular powers during the fusion as well as her personal powers
Lapis is the most fragile-looking juggernaut that I have ever had the pleasure to be terrified by
she also had no body deformities but her eyes even though she had been cracked much more and for much, much longer than amethyst
Tadashi and Hiro are half-brothers in this AU (same dad, different moms) for obvious reasons, but they’re still as close as in canon. Their dad died when Hiro was 3, and Tadashi hasn’t heard from his mom in over a decade, so Aunt Cass pretty much raised them.
Was tempted to make Fred a gem, but then I realized everything would be 500% better if he stayed human (okay there was actually more thought behind that but yeah).
