Now that a nursing home costs an average of 2,359 euros per month: how do you manage that financially?

A nursing home room costs Flemish elderly people an average of 2,359 euros per month — 572 euros more than the average pension. Should you use your savings, and if necessary your house, to close that gap? Or is that the government’s job? Health economist Dominique Vandijck (UGent) analyzes. “I am allergic to people who think that the government — with your and my tax dollars — should pay for everything.”

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