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A 2012 research study of 18 play groups supported by Queensland used interviews with parents, group registration books completed by the facilitator and a survey to facilitate the description of attendance and engagement patterns, and to assess parents’ experiences. The study also examined how parents’ experiences with the program, individual and family characteristics and program factors explained their attendance (Berthelsen et al. 2012). Each of these funding agencies has its own model of sustained game group and a set of guidelines to follow. For example, the Victorian model is formalized in the sense that it requires that all supported play groups provide small conversations, an evidence-based parental program, to all participating families with children aged 12 months to 3 years (DET, 2015; see table 1).

Future research should include several intergenerational play groups of equal numbers defined in the two different models identified in this study to compare the community model and the voluntary model. Future research should include identifying the development benefits of participating children involved in PPIs The researchers collected data from the qualitative interview of participants and caregivers of older children during the IPP sessions which were interrupted by school holidays and vacations. This was done through the electronic bulletin board throughout the elderly care center and the local community through media advertising in local newspapers and general practitioner offices.

The sustained playgroup model is based on the statement that support for families “when their children’s development is faster in the early years will have a lasting influence on children” (Jackson, 2011, p. 29) throughout their lives. The plays supported by the places provide Aboriginal families with a safe and supportive environment to meet in their communities, giving children the opportunity to engage in early learning activities based on play and giving parents and careers access to parental support . The model is used to provide vulnerable families with parenting for young children and support for early childhood development from a single fixed location .

The inclusion of a non-family intergenerational program is a relatively new means of treatment in the care of the elderly and recognizes that contact between the young and the older generations continues to be an integral part of most families. Family forms are more diverse in previous times, reflecting the complex social and economic changes in society that lead to a lack of contact between young and old . Parents also said that playgroup sustained play groups create new opportunities for their children to learn and said they noticed that their children were more actively involved in the game (ARTD Consultants, 2008a; ARTD Consultants, 2008b). (See Table 2 for more information on play and development.) According to the parents, their children had become safer thanks to their participation in sustained and intensive play groups (ARTD Consultants, 2008a; 2008b).

According to the links that people establish, they can develop friendships and people diagnosed with dementia can clearly retain the ability to take advantage of authentic moments of mutual support and consideration and can understand what is involved in warm and mutually satisfactory relationships, including friendships . Decreasing social functioning can be a more direct result of the way the person diagnosed with dementia is positioned and treated by other healthy people, including family, as well as by official caregivers, as staff in day centers and residential houses . The PPIs of this study are better described as social networks freely linked by the interconnectivity of individuals as a group of people who can extend beyond the immediate social environment of the care center for the elderly. To date, research and evaluation studies have indicated that supported play groups can offer positive social experience to parents.

Although there is no research comparing models of compatible game groups, some research and evaluation studies indicate that the two main models can be problematic. Although the facilitators felt that they had sufficiently prepared the parents for this transition, the parents nevertheless indicated that they were not prepared for the reality of leading the game group themselves . The main challenges reported were irregular family help; parents do not feel sufficiently secure or willing to take on additional responsibilities; and the increased costs associated with the transition . They have the capacity to act as conduits for government and non-government services to access and support families (Wilkop & Clothier, 2013). This may take the form of providing information to parents; visits to other community organizations; and visits by health professionals, including nurses in maternal and child health, occupational therapists, speech therapists and dietetists (McDonald et al. 2014).

The play groups are local and community groups that bring together preschool children1 and their parents or careers for play and social activities (Dadich & Spooner, 2008). Although there is generally a lack of evaluation studies to support the effectiveness of playgroups, very different funding and operational models also contribute to a very diverse group of programs labeled as playgroups. In order to examine the effectiveness of the plays supported, studies which were not program evaluations of the supported play groups and which did not provide results on the aspects of the effectiveness of the supported play groups, or were evaluations of community games, were excluded. Evaluations of supported plays programs were included when examining the benefits or effectiveness of supported plays to facilitate access to services or results for parents, children and communities, or when they have assessed the impact of staff practices or program characteristics. Qualitative data collection stopped on site 1 before a new game group coordinator resumed the program while the current playground coordinator returned to work and her son congratulated the kindergarten. On site 2, all interviews were conducted to coincide with the post-test quantitative data collection due to the presentation of the PPI in the autonomous dementia service.

Develop models of sustained play groups to become integrated services, including life skills courses for mothers, intensive family support, references, bus services and school vacation events for the whole family (Targowska and al., 2015) is another strategy aimed at meeting the needs of CALD families. The availability of bus service was considered very important (Targowska et al., 2015), as well as the integrated program model that allowed women to attend life skills programs, such as English lessons in the same space as the game group (Targowska et al.2015; Hopkins and Barnett, 2013). This quantitative and qualitative design of mixed methods explored the benefits of participating in an intergenerational IPP game group program in the old healthcare media.

Of participate fully in society, since participants thought that the IPP experiences were representative of the community. Supported play groups can be considered as safe “soft” entry points that meet the social support needs of families and at the same time link them to more formal support when necessary (ARTD Consultants, 2008a; Jackson , 2011; Turner and Bredhauer, 2005). The joint location of school-supported play groups can be of additional value as a facilitator in building important social relationships for a smooth and consistent transition to school (McLean et al.2014) . This is particularly important for vulnerable or difficult to access families, as this joint location physically links families to the educational environment in which their children will participate later (McLean et al. 2014). According to the parents, their children had become safer thanks to their participation in the game group (ARTD Consultants, 2008a; ARTD Consultants, 2008b).

Stresses that the supported play groups are a limited-term service for families rather than a long-term intervention, with emphasis on the transition of families to other services, such as community play groups. Sustained play groups are also offered as part of the NSW Government Schools project as a community center, where additional media are also provided, as positive parental programs “Triple P” for families with children from 3 to 8 years old and transition to school and support for early literacy . NSW Playgroups offers an informal session where moms, dads, grandparents, tutors, children and babies can meet in a relaxed and friendly environment while providing child care. In this study, Seniors and people with dementia in care centers for the elderly and guardians of children and children who attend play groups are purchased together at the IPP. Therefore, The exchange of experiences concerning the potential of intergenerational meetings should be encouraged and strengthened .