Sweden’s first LGBT retirement home – a model for rainbow ageing?
There's a lengthy waiting list for a place at Sweden's first retirement home for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, its success highlighting a growing demand for accommodation specifically for elderly LGBT people.
Opened in 2013, Regnbågen (in Stockholm) , or rainbow house, doesn’t look any different from the other modern apartment blocks in the quiet, leafy Stockholm suburb that overlooks the city’s port.
The residents, the majority of them men, occupy 27 airy apartments on the upper three floors of an eight story retirement home with access to amenities such as a hairdresser, foot therapist, health clinic and a roof terrace.
“We have the same activities, we live the same life and we love in the same way,” Christer Fallman, Regnbågen’s founder, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“The only thing that is different is that a small minority of people who are gay can get together to find security when they are ageing.”
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