Hagamos Hogar works as follows: once the person over 55 years old registers online indicating that he/she has a free room to rent and wants to enjoy the company of another person, in this case a student or professional looking for an affordable room, quiet and close to his/her work or university, and a profile is created. 

With our system and team of professionals, we look for the roommate that fits your profile and with whom you would have greater compatibility. An important aspect is that all profiles are verified. 

Then, we follow up on the new agreements, accompanying and advising on the coexistence. The idea is that the housemate will be a friend, company and a lot of laughs. Senior shared housing agreements are usually of long duration.

We also have a Senior Home, in which two seniors decide to share housing to live together, share experiences, hobbies and help each other, all framed in mutual respect and understanding.

These young people have received a lot of support, because when they started the idea the first thing they did was to look for organizations that would allow them to be guided and have mentors to help them clarify the whole idea they had in their head, first they contacted CECOD, who guided them step by step. Then they talked to CADE, the Andalusian Center for Entrepreneurship in order to attend courses and workshops that allowed them to develop their idea.

These young people were aware that they are always going to have difficulties, but for them it was a matter of getting organized, meeting deadlines and doing it, so they see it as small tests that end up filtering through to the population. What is true is that we have to start giving recognition to social enterprises as it is done in other countries, because there are already many companies with a social purpose and that are self-sufficient.

people now have a great advantage because they were born in a digital era, in an era of opportunities and bridges, so they only need to believe and make their dreams come true.

At this moment, it is not necessary to invent “flying shoes”, what is necessary is to observe and look around to realize that there are still many things to be solved, that it is only necessary to detect, believe and feel confident that they will find those organizations or institutions that will support them, but it is also necessary to go and look for them.

Achieving the objectives set

The results so far are very good, they have validated the use of the platform and the users’ login, so they have confirmed their hypothesis. They are setting up a senior coexistence so that seniors can live together.

Also, they have observed how generations are changing and how seniors are adapting to all the circumstances of both the pandemic and the digital generation, so it has allowed them to show these changes to young people, who have also assumed new behaviors.