THERE ARE FOUR, WITH THREE OTHERS NEARBY
(AT RUE DU CHÂTEAU DES RENTIERS)
They are City-managed.
During the heat wave of 2020 the City distributed electric fans and bottles of water. During covid the caretaker disinfected floors and door handles three times a day and placed an antiseptic solution and paper towels in the entry. The City distributed masks with filters.
Posters at the entry :
Accompaniment for seniors who fear withdrawing cash from ATM machines (the service is free and tips are forbidden) / Excursions outside Paris, the fee based on income.
Free activities for residents include workshops
in crafts and writing, yoga, a chorale, theater and dance
and visits with a lecturer to the Musée d'Orsay.
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The mayor comes for the Christmas apéritif. The caretaker is to his right. Members of his team surround them.
Jérôme Coumet, the mayor, gives a short speech
in which he tells the residents what City Hall
has done in the past year and what it plans in the future.
He also gives everyone a box of chocolats
and speaks personally to whomever comes up to him.
The caretaker takes groceries up five flights of stairs for the elderly residents when the elevator is stalled and the muscular young men hired to help at certain hours are not present.
When a person in the neighboring building committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window in sight of some of the residents, she had City Hall send two psychiatrists to meet with elderly residents. She thought particularly of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, for whom the tragedy might evoke terrible memories. For those who did not speak French well, the psychiatrists proposed interpreters.
"The residents are like my family,"
she said with tears in her eyes
when an aged man died.
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