As a result of the findings, the project is currently been researched as part of a PhD study to explore the potential in the near future for a Centre for Intergenerational Learning in DCU. This is where a diversity of DCU modules would be available for older learners through learning exchanged between the older learners and undergraduate and post graduate students across a variety of fields of learning on campus. For example, an Introduction to Science workshop was given by a DCU science student as part of this cycle of the project.

The recommendation is to develop this project as a model which can be replicated in other third level institutes in Ireland, Europe and America. Future funding will be required to ensure the sustainability of the project on campus. The findings indicate that there is overwhelming enthusiasm for the project to continue. It is anticipated that a research paper will be published later this year together with the organisation of a conference here in DCU to research the benefits of Intergenerational Learning at third level.

We will leave you with a link to the Young at Heart Google Site that we set up for our current learners and one final quote from an older learner:

"It gives me great confidence and encouragement that my brain can grasp something that up to now has really been totally outside my experience, and it's opened my eyes to a whole new range of possibilities....The one-to-one teaching is brilliant as I can go at my own pace."