The Preschool Inside a Nursing Home [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/26/164:00 AM

Giggles and the pitter patter of little feet echo through the halls of Providence Mount St. Vincent in Seattle—not exactly the sounds you’d expect to hear in a living-care community for older adults. Then again, “the Mount,” as it’s known, isn’t your typical nursing home.

Five days a week, residents and staff share the 300,000 square-foot facility with up to 125 children, ages zero to five. These children and their teachers make up the Mount’s Intergenerational Learning Center (ILC), a licensed nonprofit child-care center and preschool established on the Mount’s premises in 1991.

[For more of this story, written by Tiffany R. Jansen, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/edu...nursing-home/424827/]

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