The aim of this paper is to discuss the intersection properties of generalized Helly families for topological spaces and inverse limit spaces. This concept is a generalization of Helly family. A generalized Helly family is a countable family of ¡Þ-connected subsets of a topological space
X satisfying the following conditions: the intersection of each finite subfamily is ¡Þ-connected; and the intersection of each proper subfamily is nonempty.
In , Kulpa (1997) extended the Helly convex-set theorem onto topological spaces in terms of Helly families. Here, we improve his result. We show that if is a generalized Helly family of compact subsets of a topological space X and is a countable covering of X with , for each , then is nonempty.