Growing old better by growing old amongst friends: the rise of third age cooperatives

This article looks at the co-housing option for the elderly in Spain. The case study is the dream of a group of people who one day decided they neither wanted to be shut away in an old people’s home nor to depend on their children. Given the lack of options, they came up with their own solution: to grow old among friends. This utopia is called Trabensol (short for “workers in solidarity”), a housing cooperative designed for and by retired people.