'It’s like being reborn': inside the care home opening its doors to toddlers

With benefits for older people’s physical and mental health, a new care home-based nursery in London is the first intergenerational care facility in the UK

A crescendo of nursery rhymes is not what you’d expect to hear in an care home for older people, but arriving at Nightingale House in south London, you can hear the children before you can see them.

“Isn’t it fantastic? It’s the highlight of my week,” says 89-year-old Fay Garcia, while bouncing baby Sasha on her knee. “It’s like being reborn.”

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