Researchers are investigating the conversations that happen between grandparents and grandchildren in the St. Louis area.
The work builds off of the St. Louis Personality and Aging Network (SPAN) study, which started in 2007 with a group of about 1,600 participants in middle age and now follows 500 of them as they enter the grandparent years.
Although there’s evidence that intergenerational connections can benefit both young and elderly people, little work has been done looking at the content and quality of those connections. How do these conversations stack up in different cultures and genders, and how do they compare to previous generations?…