The five-part first season of the Australian documentary series matched 10 very young children with 11 very old residents who volunteered to participate in the program over the course of seven weeks. The series, which originally aired on Australian public broadcaster ABC, is modeled after a British documentary of the same name that followed a pilot project in Bristol, Britain. Welcome to the delightful, charming, and poignant world of “ Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds,” a Netflix series centered on a social experiment about the potential benefits of pairing preschoolers with a group of elderly in an “aged care” facility. The preschooler showers her with hugs, goofy little-kid humor, and some old-school fun and games like singing, dancing, and dressing up. Shirley, 89, a former florist whose short-term memory is slipping, is feeling lonely and isolated until the caring Tyrone comes along. “We’re here to die and the sooner the better,” he says – at least before this four-year-old coaxes him to find joy in simple pleasures such as cradling a newborn duckling. Bryan describes himself as “past his use-by date” and is severely depressed. Protective Ruby is a gentle guide to former banker Bryan, who has lost his enthusiasm for pretty much everything as his eyesight started to fail. “Come on, Eric,” encourages Aiden, a confident and assertive preschooler. Photo courtesy Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)įour-year-old Aiden serves as a personal trainer of sorts to Eric, an 84-year-old retired tradesman whose sedentary life has left him frail and tentative on his feet.
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