France: “It’s been 15 years in the making but the Babayagas’ House, a name taken from Slavic mythology meaning ‘witch,’ has just been inaugurated in Montreuil, on the east side of Paris. It’s a self-managed social housing project devised and run by a community of dynamic female senior citizens who want to keep their independence, but live communally. . . ‘Growing old is not an illness,’ says [85 year old Thérèse Clerc who dreamt up the project back in 1999]. ‘We want to change the way people see old age,’ and that means ‘learning to live differently.'” Read the full story here.
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