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 while providing students with a rich learning experience.

The foundation, based in Kent, Connecticut, strives to raise consciousness about America’s elderly and to bring students into contact with older adults through in-school programs that bridge the generations. The foundation’s founder, Jerry Friedman, traveled the world interviewing and photographing 62 “super centenarians”—people at least 110 years old. The photos and interviews appear in his 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 at the State Capitol of the life-size photographs during June 2007 to kick-off the statewide effort introducing the new educational initiative. During the spring of 2008 the exhibit was presented at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. to draw national attention to the project. Most recently, the walls of the State Capitol were once again graced with 25 of the photographs in a two week exhibit during February 2009.

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

Read the News Release

View the June 4, 2007 Kick-off Event

Earth's Elders in D.C. News Release

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