This study focused on factors affecting high school teachers' recognition of the involvement of local residents We conducted a survey among teachers in 80 metropolitan high schools in which we could obtain the cooperation. We excluded participants with missing values for key variables, analyzing the data of 135 teachers. Ordinal regression analysis showed that the social support from local residents was positively associated with a positive attitude for local residents, while social support from local residents and collaboratively among school staffs were negatively associated with a sense of burden. Based on the results, building cooperative ties with local residents and school staffs could reduce the burden and promote regional exchange.

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In this research, we analyzed and investigated the relevance and relationships between B.ROGOFF's book, The Cultural Nature of Human Development and intergenerational exchange. B.ROGOFF's approach to the cultural aspects of the community in constructing communities, the close contact with its own living and culture inherent in its nature of the communities, suggests intergenerational basic research. We focused on analysis and discussion on reciprocal and cooperative ties within B.ROGOFF’s book. As a result, the idea established by B.ROGOFF includes the active intervention and intermediary in the learning process, which is also indicated by L.S.VYGOTSKY's The Zone of Proximal Development, and in the adherence to the community’s culture and its uniqueness. In addition, we examined the relationship between the older and the younger generation, and the local communities in the process of constructing the foundation of the community in the research behind the articles, which were published in the Journal of Intergenerational Studies. They also include the uniqueness of communities and the importance of building an adherence to community living and culture suggested by B.ROGOFF's. Consequently, it turns out that incorporating the idea of B.ROGOFF into the concept of intergenerational interaction gives a new perspective to research on intergenerational exchanges.

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This study focuses on the learning support project which is one of the typical activities led by local community residents and included within the regional alliance for the children and their family members who have difficulties. We have interviewed the persons in charge of five projects in local governments or steering bodies with semi- structured inquiries, especially to confirm the existence of the notions about the circulation or the role-sharing of generations for the business continuities and extracted five points for the evaluation: degree of participation to the management of project by the administration; operation styles; learning contents; range of regional alliance; attitude to utilizing senior supporters. At the survey period, these municipalities were looking for the suitable style corresponding to the regional peculiarities with verifying regional resources, regardless for the effective utilization of senior supporters. It was expected for the learning support projects to be controlled indirectly by the local administrations for the cautious operation, for example, assurance of continuity, deliberation of privacies, sharing good practices, or joint operation with another projects to provide whereabouts for children like as a free cafeteria.

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the effect of social worker on the effect on participating elderly for the intergenerational program at the social welfare center in Korea. In this research, interview was conducted for three social workers managing the program and the three elderly participated in this program in three social welfare centers in the T city, Korea. As a result, the purpose and expected effect intended by the staffs were confirmed in the satisfaction and effect for the elderly, however, differences were also found in satisfaction and effect focused on interaction. It was been considering that the personal􀀃 consciousness in charge concerning interaction was reflected. The social workers in charge who consider interaction are working on an exchange form that makes it easy for young people to interact with the elderly. Therefore, it was conformed that active elderly people who were able to communicate closely obtained the satisfaction and effect much richly by interaction.

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We intend to create an extrafamilial intergenerational network in a region of Nagano prefecture. Therefore, we designed and conducted a three-part dietary workshop series for health promotion involving older and younger generations residing in this region. We verified that our intergenerational activities produced changes in participants’ images of milk and dairy products, which was the aim of the workshop series. A workshop series was held in a city, Nagano prefecture. Images of milk and dairy products among 10 regional elderly dietary life improvement promoters (females, age range: 62-73 years) and 23 female students (age range: 17-18 years) who participated in the workshop series were compared to images among 16 elderly dietary life improvement promoters (females, age range: 58-78 years) and 22 females students (age range: 17-18 years) who did not participate in the workshop series. We analyzed changes in images of milk and dairy products before and after participating in our workshop series using convergent mixed methods design. Significant differences were observed in the images of nutritional properties of dishes prepared using milk products after participating in our workshop series among students. Furthermore, free descriptions provided by the students who participated in the workshop series indicated that the workshops improved their understanding of older generations in the region.

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The purpose of this study was to understand and describe the reasons for decreasing depression from the perspective of an older adult woman with dementia who continuously participated in an intergenerational day program within an urban community. We used quantitative data to assess decreased depression and qualitative data to observe the intergenerational exchanges. The woman’s physical and cognitive status declined during the observation period; however, her GDS-15 score improved from 12 to 3 points, and it was speculated that she was developing a sense of security concerning the location and the relationships formed with the school-aged children through their weekly continuous participation in the program. There was no relationship between the amount of and subjective satisfactions with intergenerational exchanges. This study indicated that the intergenerational exchanges of people with dementia engender independence of participation and dialogue with children, and these findings could be useful for developing community resources.

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