Generations of Hope Communities: an intergenerational neighborhood model of support and service.

A Generations of Hope Community (GHC) is an intentionally created, geographically contiguous intergenerational neighbourhood, where some of the residents are facing a specific challenge around which the entire community organizes. The authors discuss philosophical principles that ground GHCs, critical insights which have emerged from over a decade of experience with Hope Meadows (the first GHC), and the strategy used in GHCs known as Intergenerational Community as Intervention (ICI). Meaningful intergenerational relationships and purposeful engagement within the neighbourhood make the ICI strategy …