GLOBETROTTERS: Miquel Ribas, an 82-year-old Spaniard, poses at a care home for the elderly in Topolsica on July 24, 2014, during a week-long trip to Slovenia. This is the first international exchange of rooms in care homes for seniors, organised by social networking agency Linkedage, a Slovenian company that developed a web platform to link residences all over Europe and the world to enable similar exchanges or to rent vacant rooms.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia: Conventional wisdom would hold that a move into a retirement home means that a pensioner's days of adventure are over.
But a new social network in Slovenia wants to change that and make globetrotting easier for older folk with wanderlust who want — or need — the services of a specialised residence for seniors.
