HOLY SPIRIT ELDERLY REST HOME

In the 40s of the last century the sisters started a small rest home for elderly ladies within the Monastery located in Via Bolognese.

The court in front of the Monastery is also the main entrance to the rest home
 

The rear of the Monastery has a large garden and some land, where the ladies can walk and spend some time every day

Since 1986, when school activity ended, as advised by the Florence Archbishop Silvano Piovanelli, this has become the main Monastery activity. So, following the natural evolution of society and its needs (due to a larger presence of elderly people than young and children) the sisters have been dedicating to assisting self-sufficient elderly ladies.

 

A part of the Monastery was refurbished and changed into a comfortable and well equipped Rest Home.

 

Some pictures of the inside of the elderly ladies rest home

The Holy Spirit Elderly Rest Home is a so-called “Assisted Social Residence”, authorized in 1993 by the Municipality of Florence (Sanitary Local Authority  ASL10).

          

                    Sisters preparing the elderly ladies’ meals            The elderly ladies having their meal

 

 

Each lady lives in a small apartment, free and independent from the other guests. The apartment is made of a bedroom-living room and a bathroom with toilet. Each lady can customize her rooms, by furnishing them based on her personal taste.

Some of the apartments for the elderly ladies; for more pictures, please check the photo gallery

 

A surprise for the Epiphany day

(based on the Italian tradition, an old woman brings gifts and sweets on January 6th)

 

From time to time the sisters organize entertaining events to gladden the hearts of the guest ladies

The original mission, which is educating children and the young, is still alive out of the Florence Monastery, in the Carbonia community, in Sardinia, where a nursery school is currently active.

 
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