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Undergraduates Mentoring Older Adults: Breaking Stereotypes

This practice-based article asks of what some perceptions undergraduates develop about older adults after mentoring them. As part of a course on intergenerational communication, undergraduate students mentored older learners on basic Internet skills. The older learners were taking an 8 week long course in a lifelong learning institute for people 50 years old and older. Each undergraduate kept a journal of his or her experience. This article chronicles highlights from those journals to explore the perceptions of the undergraduates as they interacted with older adults.