German pensioners are being sent to care homes in Eastern Europe and Asia in what has been described as an ‘inhumane deportation’.  Rising numbers of the elderly and sick are moved overseas for long-term care because of sky-high costs at home.

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Some private healthcare providers are even building homes overseas, while state insurers are also investigating whether they can care for their clients abroad.

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Experts describe a time bomb’ of increasing numbers unable to afford the growing costs of retirement homes.

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And they say the situation should be a warning to Britain, where rising numbers of pensioners are forced to sell their homes to pay for care.

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The Sozialverband Deutschland (VdK), a socio-political advisory group, said the fact that many Germans were unable to afford the costs of a retirement home in their own country was a huge ‘alarm signal’.

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‘We simply cannot let those people, who built Germany up to be what it is, be deported,’ VdK’s president Ulrike Mascher told The Guardian. ‘It is inhumane.’
Researchers found an estimated 7,146 German pensioners living in retirement homes in Hungary in 2011.

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More than 3,000 were in the Czech Republic and more than 600 in Slovakia. There were also unknown numbers in Spain, Greece and the Ukraine, as well as Thailand and the Philippines.
Some told researchers they were there out of choice as costs were lower, while standards of care were often higher.

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But many others admitted they moved reluctantly.

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