{"id":142619,"date":"2024-02-14T00:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/young-and-old-help-each-other-to-thrive-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T01:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T18:09:45","slug":"young-and-old-help-each-other-to-thrive-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/young-and-old-help-each-other-to-thrive-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Young and old help each other to thrive | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe beauty of Belong Chester | Sunday snooping | Boris Johnson\u2019s service | Everyone\u2019s an emeritusI read your feature on the Belong intergenerational community in Chester with absolute delight (Young, old and marvellous: how a care home built a nursery \u2013 and everyone thrived, 6 February). I am so pleased that somebody is taking the all\u2011important connection between old and young seriously, and making it work. As a teenager and twentysomething moons ago, I\u00a0strongly felt that ancient great aunts and uncles were immured in a living death \u2013 tucked away, out of sight, easily forgotten. They needed connectivity, to interact with kids, to be reminded of what it\u00a0was like to be a parent or a favourite aunt\/uncle. I would happily sign up for Belong in Chester tomorrow.Diana CoulterSouthwold, Suffolk\u2022 When I was a teenager, there was a house for sale next door. It didn\u2019t sell for years and we were convinced that it was because after Sunday lunch (to my mother\u2019s chagrin) we used to lick our plates in the large bow window in the dining room, when other people were taking their Sunday constitutionals, and peering in to see what the neighbours might be like (Letters, 9 February).Alison LeightonStony Stratford, Buckinghamshire Continue reading…
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