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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
And that is why I look after my own mother and will continue to do so for as long as I am able. I do not trust anyone to look after her in the way that I can.
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Unfortunately there are people who for one reason or another have nobody to care for them.
I was reading an article last week about government mandarins investigating the possibility of farming out the elderly with dementia to care homes in Thailand. The triple reasoning behind this was that the culture over there is geared towards respect and care for their elders, they wouldn't know where they were anyway (which shows just how little these mandarins understand dementia) and of course wages are low so there would be a significant reduction in cost.