Posted on 09/19/2013 4:51:29 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
SZKLARSKA POREBA, Poland — Sonja Miskulin has forgotten her beloved cat, Pooki. She can't remember whether she has grandchildren and has no memory of her nine-hour journey one recent Sunday to forever leave behind her home in Germany. Suffering from dementia, the wheelchair-bound former translator celebrated her 94th birthday in a Polish nursing home last month. Her daughter sent her there in a bid for a better life and more affordable care. Miskulin has joined the vanguard of a controversial movement: emigrant nursing home residents. The "Grandma export" trend has set hands wringing in Germany, where Munich's leading newspaper denounced it as "gerontologic colonialism" and compared it to nations exporting their trash. Yet more families like Miskulin's say it's their best option to provide a dignified old age for elderly parents — and save money — amid a lack of affordable quality care at home. One in five Germans would now consider going abroad for a nursing home, according to a March survey by TNS Emnid, one of Germany's biggest pollsters.
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It's been done before.
If Germany is all that worried about maybe they should start planning a way to make Nursing homes cheaper in Germany.
My kid will prolly ship my butt to Mexico lol!
The Osties would only let the elderly out of the Peoples Paradise when the wall was up.
This story was floating around a year ago as well; in socialist countries there is no need for anyone who can’t contribute to the tax-man. Here in the US we just keep out elderly working longer and attack it at the other end by simply importing adults rather than deal with such costly issues as childcare.
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