I want to show some numbers from the multinational health company BUPA United Kingdom: Residences 280 / Residential complexes for retirees 5 / Residents 18,000 Employees 26,000 Australia: Residences 65 / Residents 6000 / Employees 8000 New Zealand: Residences 60 / Residential complexes for retirees 30 / Rehab Center 7 / Day Center 36 Residents 3,850 / Employees 4,000 Spain: Residences 40 / Day Center 22 / Residents 4,800 / Employees 3,100 As we see in the previous table, the multinational BUPA (Sanitas) has residences, residential complexes, serving people from retirement age, and also younger people with dependency problems and / or functional diversity. The model they propose is focused on caring for the person. I will not advertise them; As a private or semi-private offer, they want to maintain a high standard of quality, because they continually analyze the market, look for what people demand, and run their business in the right direction to grow, which in this case is to maintain this standard. My older son's partner is a doctor in New Zealand, specifically in the city of Invercargill. Talking to them, about how to rebuild our life project, after the stroke my wife suffered almost ten years ago, we talked that senior cohousing, where sharing cures, was a good choice. Unfortunately the cohousing we contacted (all) did not accept PMR-dependents, so we decided to undertake our own project. When undertaking a new thing, one is always tempted to find out that there is something similar, because surely everything we invent has been invented previously or there are several inventing it at the same time. Knowing, from what they told me, that New Zealand was a country where there was a special sensitivity for the inclusion of functional diversity, I wanted to see what my future possibilities were like there, or if we had gone to live there. He told me that there was exactly what I was looking for, but that it did not appear as cohousing, they were not cooperatives, but private residences. We decided to go to New Zealand and learn how one of them works. It was like a town of about 50 booths, one and two rooms, with a large house in the center, which had twenty rooms. In the big house a large community dining room, and other services. Basic services such as gardening are mandatory and are part of the fee, and the rest, eating, cleaning, laundry, physical therapy, swimming pool, etc., are à la carte. There is one nurse for every 12 residents, and the staff of the other services is dynamically established according to the subscribed people. According to what they tell me, almost all are well-off people, not rich people, the so-called middle class, since it is not exactly cheap to live there, but many of them sell or rent their previous residence to pay for their stay. We do not want to do business with us, we want to decide what, when and how to do it, and at a price within our reach. If my son went there, it was because the salary / cost of living ratio is better there than here. The question is ... are we capable of setting up a similar thing as a cooperative, as a group of promoters of inclusive cohousing? This is the question we have to answer ourselves. Brias Canarias is the project that I have decided to promote to face this challenge, things do not happen alone, we must promote them, and although the path is not easy, hiding our heads under the wing and closing our eyes will lead us to do nothing. , ... and nothing will change. Did our parents plan to end up in a residence, away from their family and friends? Why should we do better? Let's take the first step. Let's make Brisas Canarias come true.

It is time to value solidarity, empathy, build neighborhood ties that give us the strength that new times require of us, in short, to be a community that discovers that the group is much better than selfishness, that friendship is better weapon that the bank to get out of the crisis, that you and the neighbor shopkeeper need each other, that you cannot sell it for two coins of difference with a multinational, that those two coins that you save are in exchange for the lives of people like us, to which with our indifference we condemn misery so that savage investors accumulate more money than they can ever spend. Please stop, let's stop and think. This community offers us the opportunity to rethink our lives, to be better and therefore happier. Let us return to the values of morality, ethics, kindness, friendship, and intelligence that is nothing other than the ability to learn.