"An international network of volunteers are helping the elderly get out of the nursing home and into nature on the front of their bikes.
“Cycling Without Age” founder Ole Kassow of Copenhagen,
Denmark got the idea when he passed by an old man sitting on a park bench on his bike ride to work each morning.
“I bet he would like to ride a bike,” he said in a Ted Talk.
So he showed up at the nursing home with a rented rickshaw and asked who wanted a ride. After an hour-long ride along a boardwalk with an elderly woman, Kassow felt he’d time traveled with her, listening to stories about how she’d waited for loved ones to arrive there after the war.
A few days later, Kassow got a call from the nursing home saying all the other residents wanted rides too.
So he started offering them in his spare time.
“I made lots of unlikely friends,” he said."
https://returntonow.net/2019/07/04/volunteers-around-the-world-are-taking-the-elderly-on-rickshaw-rides-in-nature/
“Cycling Without Age” founder Ole Kassow of Copenhagen,
Denmark got the idea when he passed by an old man sitting on a park bench on his bike ride to work each morning.
“I bet he would like to ride a bike,” he said in a Ted Talk.
So he showed up at the nursing home with a rented rickshaw and asked who wanted a ride. After an hour-long ride along a boardwalk with an elderly woman, Kassow felt he’d time traveled with her, listening to stories about how she’d waited for loved ones to arrive there after the war.
A few days later, Kassow got a call from the nursing home saying all the other residents wanted rides too.
So he started offering them in his spare time.
“I made lots of unlikely friends,” he said."
https://returntonow.net/2019/07/04/volunteers-around-the-world-are-taking-the-elderly-on-rickshaw-rides-in-nature/