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• Families sending relatives with dementia to Thailand for care

  12-01-2020 23:38
  
  British people with disease sent abroad over inadequate and expensive care at homeBritish families are sending elderly relatives with dementia overseas to Thailand in a small but growing trend.Researchers visiting private care homes in Chiang Mai have found eight homes where guests from the UK are living thousands of miles away from their families, because suitable care in their home country was impossible to find or afford. Continue reading...
  
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• The gap between young and old has turned Britain into a dysfunctional family | John Harris

  12-01-2020 18:13
  
  When generations lead such separate lives, it damages everyone. We need deliberate initiatives to bring them togetherTravel around the periphery of any British town or city, and you will quickly behold a symbol of one of the most painful modern divides. The average residential care home will be set well back from the road, seemingly silent and apparently cut off from most of the life of the surrounding community. When people who know nothing of those inside glimpse such sights, what passes throu
  
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