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In some retirement homes, students can get an apartment for free in exchange for a few hours of their time. Report from Cahors (Lot).
In a retirement home in Cahors (Batch)residents try their hand at short golf. This fun activity is organized by Morgane Oliver. A nursing school student, she gives her time in this residence seniorsto Josiane’s greatest happiness Pajotretired. The student devotes 15 hours of her time to residents each week. It’s not volunteering, en exchange, she benefits from free accommodation in the establishment.
Around fifty residences concerned
With 45 meters squares nothing that for her, Morgane was quickly seduced by this opportunity, which allows her to save a rent, but also not to feel too alone for your first year of studies. In France, since 2017, around fifty senior residences like this one have offered this type of arrangement to a student. For the director of the Cahors establishment, Charles Barbier, it is a way to fight against the isolation of elderly people.