CoA and the Earth’s Elders Foundation

The Earth’s Elders Foundation and Connecticut Commission on Aging are collaborating on a unique project that offers schools a new curriculum designed to foster intergenerational respect and understanding.

The foundation, based in Kent, Connecticut, strives to raise consciousness about America’s elderly and to bring the very young into contact with the very old through in-school programs that foster intergenerational activities.  The foundation’s founder, Jerry Friedman, traveled the world interviewing and photographing “super centenarians”—people at least 110 years old. The photos and interviews appear in a book entitled “Earth’s Elders: The Wisdom of the World’s Oldest People.”

The Commission on Aging and Earth’s Elders Foundation presented a month-long exhibit of the 62 life-size photographs during June to kick-off the statewide effort introducing the new educational initiative. 

For more information on the curriculum and this unique collaboration, please call the Commission on Aging @ 860-240-5200. 

Read the News Release

View the June 4, 2007 Kick-off Event

Earth’s Elders Foundation website:  www.earthselders.org