Doug Hampton

(AFP) – “I have the impression that it’s an aunt who lives with us”: in Cavaillon, in the south of France, Audrey Jacquet and her family welcome Marguerite, 86, whose relatives live far away, an increasingly popular way of supporting the elderly. Around the kitchen table, the nerve center of the home, it’s snack time … Read more

(AFP) – The sun has barely risen when Zahraa is already harvesting with a sure gesture, on the heights of his village in eastern Lebanon, the delicate Damask roses that will be used to make rose water, very prized for cosmetics and pastries. A large white bag tied at the waist, Zahraa Sayed Ahmed picks … Read more

(AFP) – In a Portland laboratory, Tori Armbrust takes 250 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms out of a simple shopping bag to have their potency tested: anywhere else in the United States, “I would be in big trouble for that, 1000%” , laughs the thirty-something. But in the northwest of the country, in Oregon where their … Read more

the essential “We must ensure traceability from A to Z (…) For medico-legal reasons of course. But also to establish how many people have had access to this new right each year and under what conditions”, explained the minister delegate, Agnès Firmin le Bodo, in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche. The future bill … Read more

(AFP) – Less than 5,000 elderly people with a loss of autonomy are housed in France with a “welcoming family”, a modest figure which is explained in particular by the unknown nature of this system. In total, there are just over 8,400 family carers at the national level (a figure which has fallen by 10% … Read more