“Better care is why one German woman NPR interviewed says she pulled her mother out of a nursing home down the street and moved her to a Polish one 350 miles away. . . she says no matter what, she won’t bring her back to a German nursing home. She says at the last one, workers fed her mother a steady dose of sedatives that kept her asleep most of the time. The daughter says that’s not the case in Poland, where her mother is happy and more active. . . .
“But many other Germans are uncomfortable with the exodus of their senior citizens. . . .
“Klaus Pawletko, who heads the Berlin-based association Friends of The Elderly, blames the transplant of German seniors into cheaper facilities abroad on relatives seeking to protect their inheritance.” Click here to read and listen to the story.
