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Care Crisis - German pensioners in Eastern European nursing homes

November 15, 2012

Costs of caring for the elderly in Germany have risen sharply. Because many retired people can no longer afford long-term nursing, families are seeking cheaper alternatives outside the country. That's why some care-dependent patients have ended up in nursing homes in Slovakia, for example: hundreds of kilometers from their homes and relatives, and where the staff rarely speak German.

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