“While the first shared apartment for seniors appeared as a novelty in the mid-1990s, a recent boom means that almost 2,000 senior residents live in shared housing arrangements in Berlin alone, according to a Journal of Clinical Nursing study. And as the generation that witnessed the social revolutions of the 1960s grows older, the trend is gaining momentum.
“‘The image of aging is changing,” says Henning Scherf, a sprightly septuagenarian and former mayor of the northern German city of Bremen. “In the past it had to do with frailty and black clothes. Now there is everything, from traditional people to those who want to do things differently.'” Learn more here.
