In Yvelines, these retirees show that shared accommodation is not just for young people. A house in Ecquevilly, near Les Mureaux, has been welcoming roommates much older than average since October.
These women aged 78 to 95 preferred to be here instead of at the nursing home. Here they are free, independent and above all socially integrated. A type of accommodation halfway between medical residence and home care, still rare in the department. “I could no longer stay at home after my hip operation because there is one floor,” says Mauricette, the first tenant.