US students swap dorms for retirement homes

A group of students in the US states of Michigan and Ohio has decided to live alongside senior citizens for a study.

The experiment is part of a social and communication-based research project looking at the isolation and loneliness of retirees. The students live in a retirement community to help reduce the social isolation usually experienced by the elderly after they retire and to bridge the gap between the young and the old.

Researchers say the goals are to break the cliché of aging and to revise the stereotypes that generations can have of each other. Designers of the study say they hope that the research could lead to more actual inter-generational communication by the time the students move out in 2018.

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