PARIS - On a recent Saturday in a retirement home in the northeastern French village of Kunheim, happy hour started early. As a bartender poured beer and champagne, residents of the Roseliere nursing ...

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As a bartender poured beer and champagne, residents of the Roseliere nursing home and dozens of their guests mingled in the spacious lounge. Lively conversation, music and laughter filled the room ...

An elderly woman reacts as she sits in a bar at a nursing home that bought a liquor license and opened a bar to create social connections in Kunheim, eastern France on November 15, 2025. (Photo by ...

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