Thursday, December 27, 2012

Germany 'exporting' old and sick to foreign care homes

Pensioners are being sent to care homes in Eastern Europe and Asia in an austerity move dismissed as 'inhumane deportation'

This is a country that Cameron wants to emulate, well the success side but this comes at a cost to us all. What next shifting the poor out of the cities, whoops they’ve done that already, sound familiar…..

Germany 'exporting' old and sick to foreign care homes

Growing numbers of elderly and sick Germans are being sent overseas for long-term care in retirement and rehabilitation centres because of rising costs and falling standards in Germany.

The move, which has seen thousands of retired Germans rehoused in homes in eastern Europe and Asia, has been severely criticised by social welfare organisations who have called it "inhumane deportation".

But with increasing numbers of Germans unable to afford the growing costs of retirement homes, and an ageing and shrinking population, the number expected to be sent abroad in the next few years is only likely to rise. Experts describe it as a "time bomb".

Source: guardian