This is

episode 322.

Bonjour, I'm Annie Sergeant and today I bring you a conversation with

two people, Carolyn Gates and Julia Maurice, about growing old in France.

Even if you have no intention of ever moving to France,

it's good to understand how things work in other countries, right?

But in fact, a lot of my listeners would love to move to France someday.

And if you move to France and all goes well, you'll grow old in France France what options will you have then we'll explore

three things that typically happen as a person grows old in France number one that

person stays in their own home. That's obviously the most desirable

option and there are a lot of things in France to make that possible. I don't think that's

the case in many other countries.

So that's where France shines, I think. Number two, that person moves into a

residence de Signor or something of the sort. That's what you would call a retirement community in America.

Options are still limited in France, but there are some and it's developing so I'll mention that. Number three that person needs

full-time help and has to move into a long-term care facility that can be more or less medicalized. Those are the types of things I

discussed with my guests so I'm not going to say very much about it. If you like what we do here

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