It was a great joy to take my new Swedish twin baby grandsons to enjoy meeting the friends who attend Memory Lane, a local Dementia café for people and their carers held twice a month.

During my professional career I have worked with many people living with dementia and introduced a number of projects that celebrate the importance of animals, plants and children coming into care homes in new ways to create a good human habitat.

The research about connecting generations is strong and many people will have seen the great series about a nursery school going into a care home on Channel 4. I have met both the Director of St Monica Trust who was involved along with Zoe who was the Geriatrician involved in the study.

I could see the same effect being generated here with babies.

We enjoyed several rhymes and songs that came spontaneously from the group and some with just a little prompting! You can see the rapport from the pictures.

It was clear to all of us attending the group, that the spontaneity and joy expressed in the faces of the people with dementia was quite a transformation.

We were not sure how some of the participants would engage. The light coming into their faces, the little conversations, both verbal and nonverbal connectivity was quite magic.

The babies, Archie (named before the Sussex new royal addition came onto the scene!) and Sixten (Which means Victory in Swedish) were kept busy for a good half an hour of passing the baby. They slept well that night!

Those who looked on also benefited in a positive way even though they did not feel confident enough to take the baby, they smiled and focused on what was going on around them. These babies are 6 months old. It shows that we have a good local example of very young and old bringing each other joy in a such a spontaneous way.