[New housing and life styles for the aged. Aging in a residential community].

The decision to share a flat and live in community for old people marks the step into a new, unfamiliar life situation. Long-fostered outlooks and attitudes have to be reconsidered and perhaps modified. Living in community requires such vital qualities as self-reflexion and empathy. The new life-style may be cumbersome, often confusing; on the other hand, it strips aging of its character of waning life-time. It renders the later years a proper phase of life offering its own chances.