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Re Spain. It depends where you are and the money you have. Although any families do look after parents there are fewer families with children now and very few marriages. The upshot is a very different mix to 40 years ago. Many families try to keep people in their own homes and 'supply' live in maids, mainly for 3rd world countries (South America and Eastern Europe as well as Africa) who are just glad to have a place to stay for a while until they sort out their legal status. So then it depends on the controls in place or you could turn up and find the old dear lying in a freezing cold bed with no clothes or furniture, as it has been sold off by the carer. Others are really grateful and caring, and really make a great contribution. Most people have a pension as they/the employers are forced to pay into it. When they go into retirement homes, they do have to pick and choose and in small communities it is just like joining friends on holiday each ahs a room etc and the care is normally good as there are loads of relatives to monitor daily, as most are in the village or town where the od person used to have their home. In larger cities it is quite normal for the old people to be outside the city in surrounding towns, as the city centre residences are normally quite expensive, and if the residents need to be cared for, they do not need to be at the centre of things as they will no longer need to shop everyday at the market or go to work. There are also more halfway homes, where those who have been in hospital are cared for in a place external to the hospital so they do not bed-block urgent case, but are not on their own.
For those with money, there is live in, for those with little there is a net but family does play a greater part, but less now than before as families are smaller and like in the UK are more spread.
Re Spain. It depends where you are and the money you have. Although any families do look after parents there are fewer families with children now and very few marriages. The upshot is a very different mix to 40 years ago. Many families try to keep people in their own homes and 'supply' live in maids, mainly for 3rd world countries (South America and Eastern Europe as well as Africa) who are just glad to have a place to stay for a while until they sort out their legal status. So then it depends on the controls in place or you could turn up and find the old dear lying in a freezing cold bed with no clothes or furniture, as it has been sold off by the carer. Others are really grateful and caring, and really make a great contribution. Most people have a pension as they/the employers are forced to pay into it. When they go into retirement homes, they do have to pick and choose and in small communities it is just like joining friends on holiday each ahs a room etc and the care is normally good as there are loads of relatives to monitor daily, as most are in the village or town where the od person used to have their home. In larger cities it is quite normal for the old people to be outside the city in surrounding towns, as the city centre residences are normally quite expensive, and if the residents need to be cared for, they do not need to be at the centre of things as they will no longer need to shop everyday at the market or go to work. There are also more halfway homes, where those who have been in hospital are cared for in a place external to the hospital so they do not bed-block urgent case, but are not on their own.
For those with money, there is live in, for those with little there is a net but family does play a greater part, but less now than before as families are smaller and like in the UK are more spread.
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