Connecting Across Generations: Intergenerational Café Pilot Study
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intergenerational engagement can positively impact both younger and older adult populations, countering the negative effects of agism. This paper reports on a pilot intergenerational café. Older adults (n = 12) and students (n = 6) participated in four café sessions at a Canadian University (March–April 2023). The aim was to better understand the potential of intergenerational activities to promote social health and well-being in our age segregated society. A mixed-method design included mood questionnaires, completed by participants immediately prior to and immediately after each session, ethnographic style participant observation during each Café session and end of project focus group discussions with students and older adults. A thematic analysis across all data collected yielded findings about participants’ understandings of intergenerational connections, their motivations for participating in the intergenerational café as well as perceived benefits of and barriers to participation. We conclude that a café model is a useful approach to promoting intergenerational engagement opportunities.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it