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World Service,05 Oct 2024,26 mins

The Happy Pod: Adopting a grandparent to tackle loneliness

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This week we hear about a project that tackles loneliness among the elderly, and gives young people the benefit of their experience, by pairing them up across the world. Adopt a Grandparent started at one care home but now has more than 100,000 volunteers. Two of them, Angela and Ann, tell us about their close bond across thousands of miles - and why it is so important to all three generations of their chosen family. Also, meet the Alaskan bears that are fattening up for winter, and the man with the largest collection of whacky cars. (Photo: Angela and Ann communicate by video on a laptop. Credit: Adopt a Grandparent)

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