Families sending relatives with dementia to Thailand for care

British people with disease sent abroad over inadequate and expensive care at home

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.

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