Nursing home programs committed to providing quality care need to investigate innovative ways to meet today's budget challenges. The purpose of this article is to describe a creative collaboration between a nonprofit nursing home facility and a suburban university. Through service-learning, undergraduate students planned and implemented Free-Wheelers, an intergenerational physical activity program designed to improve the self-mobility of wheelchair-dependent nursing home residents, with no added cost to the facility and without placing an extra burden on already overwhelmed staff. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Boris Tapia.
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