With low costs and hands-on care there is new market for Thai retirement resorts. Have YOU left the UK for Thailand? Email iwan.stone@mailonline.co.ukBritish retirees are flocking to Thailand retirement resorts as they slam the NHS and social care for driving them overseas.
'People have the feeling, certainly as you get older, that you're going to be stuck in a room in a lounge playing bingo once a week … whereas you just can't compare ,' Mr Mallard told The Telegraph.And it costs just £500 more for a month of 24-hour care than the weekly price of a care home in the UK.
'My mother had a nurse or carer visit once a week in the UK. Everything else is conducted by talking over the phone on a loudspeaker in a room asking her how she is', he told Express.co.uk last year. For a similar price to what families might expect to pay in the UK, sufferers of dementia could enjoy 1:1 round-the-clock care in facilities that 'look like four-star hotels'
For a similar price to what families might expect to pay in the UK, sufferers of dementia could enjoy 1:1 round-the-clock care in facilities that 'look like four-star hotels'.