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I arrived at the National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics "Ana Aslan" in Otopeni (Bucharest-Ploiești 307) at the end of March 2018, together with Adriana Chiper, my partner from The PR Station, invited by Anca Ștefan, the director of the institute at that time, and Mihai Ursa, the institute's referent, Mihai and I having known each other all our lives. We came back the following month, prospecting for a project with the Halucinarium art gallery, which we were working on at the time. We had time each time to explore the rooms and hallways of this place that began its work in 1974, run by the woman who founded the world's first Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Ana Aslan (January 1, 1897 - May 19, 1988).

Ana Aslan, the professor-doctor who invented, among other things, the perfect copy/"hashtag", #tineretefarabatranete. At that time, the building functioned as the sanatorium of the Romanian Communist Party in Otopeni, built on 33 hectares of land, with wide hall

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