The Diaconia Valdese of the Evangelical Waldensian Church in Italy maintains residential communities for fully self-sufficient, partially self-sufficient, and non-self-sufficient seniors in San Germano Chisone, Torre Pellice, Florence, and Luserna San Giovanni. The Evangelical Waldensian Church in the Rio de la Plata operates residential communities for seniors of all levels of self-sufficiency in Colonia Valdense in Uruguay and Jacinto Aráuz in Argentina.
Waldensian ministry in residential communities for seniors is designed to “serve with people , abandoning the logic of a one-way relationship” that is defined by caregivers and is based instead on “reciprocal relationships, in which the one who helps and the one who is helped collaborate together to reach a common goal.”
More information about Waldensian residential communities for seniors can be found at iglesia-valdense.org/diaconia/# and diaconiavaldese.org/