In several parts of the country there are municipal meeting places intended for seniors.
For example, in Jönköping there are three, in Gothenburg there are 33 and in Stockholm there are as many as 48 meeting places. Where they are located is often stated on the municipalities’ websites.
There, seniors can meet other seniors and take part in activities such as excursions, creativity, music, exercise and theatre, Stockholm city writes on its website.
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Margaret95, is one of those who usually meet at Nytorget in Stockholm. She tells Mitti that she got a light beer with her meal last fall, the first time she was there.
– It was possible to get a light beer, but I said it would be good with a glass of wine. It got a great response from the guests, she tells the newspaper.
Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT.
Margareta wrote a letter to the municipality where she asked if you could bring wine to the meetings to enhance “the festive context”.
– Being allowed to have a glass of wine at a party lunch is a right. Kids too drive EPA tractors, but a pensioner can’t have a glass of wine? she says to Mitti.
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But the city of Stockholm said no. It was considered that it was not in line with the municipality’s health promotion work and that it contravened the Alcohol Act.
As early as 2022, the Social Democrats and the Moderates joined forces at Södermalm in Stockholm to try to make it possible to serve alcohol at the meetings. They were then refused by the district administration.
Now the Moderates have pushed the matter further.
– I hope it goes through before I die, says Margareta the newspaper.