The Pyrénées-Orientales are a wonderful place to spend your retirement but as you get older, you may need to consider additional support. Here’s our guide to some of the key considerations for growing old in France.

Today, we think of a charity as an organisation which supplies money or goods (Les Restos du Coeur), skills or training (Médecins sans frontières), to those in need and, in English, this is the predominant meaning of the word.