Meet the 82-year old enrolled at U of T with her grandson

Fridays this fall, 82-year-old Marion Gommerman will be sitting in a Toronto classroom alongside fellow university students young enough to be her grandkids…. Dr. Raza Mirza (above) has taught the health and aging course Gommerman is taking for about a decade, and made adjustments over time. He began inviting seniors to in-class visits, which everyone enjoyed, according to the assistant professor of social work at the University of Toronto. While the elders weren’t taking the course at that time, they often stayed to listen in, for example, to lectures “about risk factors for dementia or social isolation or retirement planning.”