More families are sending their elderly members to Thailand where they are to receive better and cheaper care, the Daily Mail reports.
As of late, the cost of care in the UK nursing home is exceeding 28,000 pounds a year and a lot of families are worried how they could look after their elderly relatives with this very high cost. As a result, an increasing number of families are opting to send their loved ones to cheaper facilities in Asia, specifically in Thailand, where they believe care is also much better.
Four years ago, Sybille Wiedmer, from Zurich sent her mother to a care home in Thailand. Her mother Elisabeth, 91, suffers from dementia and her family believed that in Thailand she would have more loving and individual care as well as an affordable one. "A lot of people were shocked in the beginning and said, how can you do this? How dare you do this? You can't visit her! And I said, if I visited her here, half an hour later she didn't know anymore. She had forgotten."
Although still limited, the among of people transferring from Europe to Asia for nursing care is expected to increase as care places become more and more oversubscribed. The pressure on places is also expected to increase dramatically as the number of elderly people increases. The World Health Organization says that by 2050, the number of people to live past their 80th birthdays will quadruple to 395 million and one six of these people will suffer from dementia. However, care providers in Thailand admit that they will never put their elderly relatives in a nursing care institution.
