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Judi Lynn

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Tue May 19, 2015, 05:13 PM May 2015

This Dutch nursing home has found a brilliant way to help college students save money

This Dutch nursing home has found a brilliant way to help college students save money

Ryan Gorman
Apr. 11, 2015, 12:00 PM

College students in a small Dutch town have been invited to live rent-free in a nursing home for senior citizens.

The students are given their own apartments in the facility and are only asked to spend at least 30 hours per month with the elderly residents, according to PBS NewsHour.

The program started after a student at a nearby school complained about housing conditions and worked with the nursing home to form the program, according to the report.

Six students live among the 160 seniors at the Humanitas nursing home, in the town of Deventer, a suburb of Amsterdam, a spokesperson told NewsHour.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-dutch-nursing-home-has-found-a-brilliant-way-to-help-college-students-save-money-2015-4#ixzz3acaCZRCs

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This Dutch nursing home has found a brilliant way to help college students save money (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2015 OP
Cool! shenmue May 2015 #1
Great idea. nt pnwmom May 2015 #2
wonderful idea! swilton May 2015 #3
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