Age is just a number, at least in Italy. Such is the impression of 70-year-old Bosnian artist Zdena Šarić, who has been staying in Rome for the last two months. “Wherever I went — whether it was a concert, an exhibition, a bar, a restaurant — almost everyone had gray hair,” says Zdena with a laugh.

In her home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zdena runs Naš Most Zenica, an association working on the social inclusion of the elderly through the arts. She’s noticed older people there don’t make that much of their retired lives.