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Chair of the trustees of the Grandparents' Federation Jean Stogdon hopes that the organisation, established in 1987, will become a national resource for all grandparents. The federation plans to recruit a development director to explore the wider issues of grandparenthood at a time when grandparents in the UK are less likely to be living with or near their children than in the past. Modern-day grandparents are more likely to be leading interesting lives of their own, but they can, and want to contribute to the care of their grandchildren.

When Alyse Lichtenstein's grandmother was her age, she was trapped in the Nazi murder machine. This week, the Boston University senior departs for her grandmother's native land, Germany, to meet [...]

Our home has become indefinitely multi-generational. I'd like to tell you that having my mother in the house has been a piece of cake for the four of us. Though [...]

A Policy Studies Institute survey has shown that 36% of women going back to work rely on grandmothers to look after their children. This total is more than those using childminders, nurseries and nannies all taken together. They are the largest unpaid childminding organisation in the UK and the need for mothers to make such arrangements is an indictment both of the government and of employers. The support provided by these grandparents is completely unrecognised yet has a profound effect on the economy of the country.

Practical Matters To visit parents who have Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are in nursing facilities can be difficult for adult children -- whose own children, in turn, can find the [...]

Four Salt Lake City Montessori schools have put a twist on the traditional adopt-a-grandparent initiative by participating in an Adopt-A-Native-Elder Program, Deseret News reports. Over the past decade, Elvira Horseherder, [...]

As part of the 'Something to Remember Me By' Legacy Project, the nonprofit Parenting Coalition and Generations United in Washington, D.C. offer the following language arts activity to help get [...]