“…In general, outcomes for youth involved in intergenerational mentoring relationships seem to be positive where certain programmatic conditions exist, such as mutuality of experience (Ereedman, 1988), a youth-driven approach (Styles & Morrow, 1992), or strong involvement on the part of the mentor (Taylor, LoSciuto, Eox, Hilbett, & Sonkowsky, 1999). On the other hand, research on outcomes and benefits for mentors suggests that older mentors reap significant personal rewards from the experience and also demonstrate improvements in physical health and perceived quality of life (Taylor et al, 1999;Morrow-Howell, Hinterlong, Rozario, Tang, 2003;Larkin, Sadler, & Mahler, 2005). However, these inferences should be handled with caution, as the considerations about research on mentoring benefits mentioned previously would indicate.…”