British Families Sending Relatives with Dementia to Thailand.
British 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.
Dr Caleb Johnston, a senior lecturer in human geography at Newcastle University.
annual staff turnover exceeding 30% and 122,000 job vacancies, levels in state and private facilities tend to be around 1:6.
award-winning facilities
Johnston spent nine weeks in Thailand along with Prof Geraldine Pratt, head of geography at the University of British Columbia, interviewing families and staff in residential care homes.
Paul Edwards, the director of clinical services at Dementia UKhttps://www.chiangraitimes.com/lifes...a-to-thailand/
British 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.
Dr Caleb Johnston, a senior lecturer in human geography at Newcastle University.
annual staff turnover exceeding 30% and 122,000 job vacancies, levels in state and private facilities tend to be around 1:6.
award-winning facilities
Johnston spent nine weeks in Thailand along with Prof Geraldine Pratt, head of geography at the University of British Columbia, interviewing families and staff in residential care homes.
Paul Edwards, the director of clinical services at Dementia UKhttps://www.chiangraitimes.com/lifes...a-to-thailand/
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