Promising Practices Useful in the Design of an Intergenerational Program: Ten Assertions Guiding Program Development

Undertaking qualitative developmental research for the purposes of designing a prototype intergenerational program, the authors offer 10 assertions concerning promising practices. The authors undertook an analysis of 47 Web-based portrayals of intergenerational programs and used Web-based documents that described those programs to further illuminate promising practices. Using thematic analysis of program Web content, affinity coding, and dialogic interpretation the authors illuminated the programs' salient properties and qualities, and formulated and refined their assertions about the distinctiveness of intergenerational programs.