| Germany accused of deporting its elderly | |
| Wpisał: UK Daily Mail | |
| 05.01.2013. | |
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Germany accused of ‘deporting’ its elderly
by UK Daily Mail on January 4, 2013 Rising numbers moved to Asia and Eastern Europe because of sky-high care cost German pensioners are being sent to care homes in Eastern Europe and Asia in what has been described as an ‘inhumane deportation’. Rising numbers of the elderly and sick are moved overseas for long-term care because of sky-high costs at home. Some private healthcare providers are even building homes overseas, while state insurers are also investigating whether they can care for their clients abroad. Experts describe a time bomb’ of increasing numbers unable to afford the growing costs of retirement homes. And they say the situation should be a warning to Britain, where rising numbers of pensioners are forced to sell their homes to pay for care. The Sozialverband Deutschland (VdK), a socio-political advisory group, said the fact that many Germans were unable to afford the costs of a retirement home in their own country was a huge ‘alarm signal’. ‘We simply cannot let those people, who built Germany up to be what it is, be deported,’ VdK’s president Ulrike Mascher told The Guardian. ‘It is inhumane.’ This article was written by Mail Foreign Service for the UK Daily Mail; view full article at the UK Daily Mail … Tagged as: deporting the elderly, elderly population, Germany, socialism About UK Daily Mail The UK Daily Mail is published by Associated Newspapers Ltd. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. |