Independent-living residences — France

Independent-living residences: a market built on recurrence

Independent-living residences are often confused with EHPAD, France's dependent-care homes. For a musician the difference decides everything. In an EHPAD the audience is dependent and activities are something that happens to them; in an independent-living residence the residents are mobile and free to come and go. They go out, they decide, and many residences have an activities committee made up of residents that chooses the quarter's programme itself.

This pack gathers 1,523 independent-living residences, MARPA and foyers-logements across 92 French departments. It includes 106 MARPA — the small rural units of twenty to twenty-five places — and more than a thousand municipal or charity-run residences.

The practical consequence is simple: here you are not chasing one date, you are asking for a place in a calendar that turns all year. An act they like comes back every quarter, sometimes every month.

A file built for the telephone

All 1,523 entries carry a phone number. It is the only pack in the catalogue where that holds, and it is no accident: these places are approached by calling. The activities manager of a forty-place residence has no department filtering proposals — they pick up.

• Phone: 100 % of entries
• Town and postcode: 100 % of entries — geographic slicing is reliable
• Website: 59 % of entries
• Email: present and domain-verified across the whole file

The full postal address is not included. It is not missing: nobody approaches a residence by post, and town plus postcode is enough to build a coherent route.

Who to write to, and why it is not always the residence

Twelve per cent of the addresses in the file are town hall or CCAS addresses — the French municipal social services. This is not a collection error: many independent-living residences are run directly by the commune, and it is the social services office that holds the activities budget. Writing to the residence's director in that case skips a step backwards.

Where an address begins with mairie@ or ccas@, address the commune's seniors service. Where it is the residence's own address, you are already in the right place. The file shows you at a glance.

What these places actually programme

The tea dance is the dominant format and shapes much of the calendar. Then come afternoon song sessions, French variety repertoire, and the music the audience danced to at twenty. Seasonal parties — Twelfth Night, Easter, Mother's Day, Christmas — are fixed appointments that residences sometimes book a year ahead.

The expected format is short and flexible: one hour to ninety minutes, in the afternoon, with direct contact. A performer who brings their own PA, plays without a technician and talks to the room between numbers will be rebooked sooner than a more ambitious project that is hard to set up.

What this pack adds to the EHPAD one

If you already own the EHPAD pack the question is fair. We cross-checked the two files: only 78 addresses appear in both, 5 % of this one. You will therefore find 1,445 new addresses, at establishments of a different nature, with a different audience and a different way of deciding.

The two complement each other well. A single afternoon run can take in an EHPAD and an independent-living residence on the same day, a few kilometres apart.

What the delivered file contains

Delivered immediately after payment:

• Excel file (.xlsx): 1,523 establishments with name, verified email, phone, town, postcode, department and website where one exists
• CSV file (.csv): for import into your prospecting tools
• PDF guide: outreach advice, a call script, and the calendar of the year's key moments

Emails verified by DNS/MX check, public sources (FINESS, public directories, commune websites), updated 2026. 30-day money-back guarantee. Find our other packs in the shop.