Donata is one of many thousands of middle-aged Polish women who work in Germany’s care industry. They travel to and fro between their work in Germany and their family in Poland.
The routine goes like this: Donata looks after the 80-year-old dementia patient Adolf Faulhammer in Baden-Württemberg for two to three months 24/7. Then she gets on the bus and travels for 16 hours to Czestochowa, not far from Krakow, where her husband and 19-year-old son await. She immediately takes over from her son and starts looking after her husband, who also needs intensive care. Non-stop caring in two countries. A report by Almut Maria Röhrl.
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- John L.: It even happens with in a country. I’ve heard some places gives their homeless a free long distance bus ticket to Los Angeles.
- Nolynox: Germany has almost full employment (at least in the west) Outsourcing those jobs to eastern Europeans makes Germany richer because they pay taxes in Germany that would have been lost otherwise.
- SOOOOL: It's a health care time bomb which the countries are too nationalist to take action. Japan learnt the hard which when they started to increase their immigration just last week.
Nationalism is doomed to collapse economies which will lead the young to favour globalism as their parents ruin their futures, and their own care.
- MrDroenix: What a courageous and strong woman! Mothers do so much for their family
- LENNY FEY: What an arrogant spoilt brat...His mother is sacrificing for him all he can afford is a cold shoulder ??!! It's so insensitive!!!
- KasraSR: We have a similar problem here in Canada, except the caregiver women tend to be more from the Philippines rather than Eastern Europe. The way things are going, with our aging population only increasing, this is just gonna get worse and worse. Some societal action is seriously needed to tackle this issue. It’s alarming and scary from so many angles. But there’s also a place for opportunity and hope if proper action is taken in time.
- DCBadeZiR.: Old People become Children Again... Thats the Process
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- calstatebadboy1111: They cook and clean? Will you marry me? Great video
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