Dragoș Dobrescu, founder of the largest senior center in Europe, Vitalitas: To see a 70–80-year-old person happy like a child – that is priceless!

Romania is in a critical situation when it comes to senior care: the public system is undersized and facing countless problems, private centers are often small, overburdened, and unevenly regulated, and families struggle enormously to ensure proper care for their parents or grandparents. At the same time, the generation that has worked all their lives is often forced to live their senior years in isolation, without activities, without proper rehabilitation, and — most painfully — without a sense of safety. In this context, where the need is enormous and the supply insufficient and unequal at the same time, we discovered that Romania is home to the largest private residential senior center in Europe, Vitalitas, which raises the standards of an entire sector. Vitalitas brings something (…)