A feminist nursing home – or rather to put it more subtly, a co-operative for old women. The driving force is “Mme Clerc, a mother of four who turned from a “bourgeois, Catholic housewife†into a militant feminist with her own business after her divorce in 1968.”
“We’re going to take all the decisions. We want to change the way society looks at old people, the way old people look at society and the way old people look at themselves,†she said.
“There will be 17 million people over the age of 65 in France by 2010 and we need to take charge of our own lives.â€
The home will function without care assistants or resident doctors.
There will be no men except, perhaps, for occasional high-jinks. “A party now and again cannot do any harm,†Mme Clerc said. She launched the idea in 1997 after the difficult experience of looking after her elderly mother.
Sounds like a great idea to me.
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