Netherlands: Number of elderly growing, daughters shoulder care

Netherlands: Number of elderly growing, daughters shoulder care

The number of Turkish and Moroccan-Dutch elderly is growing.  Daughter and daughters in-law shoulder most of the care, often at the expense of their own lives.

A tenth of Moroccan and Turkish-Dutch girls care intensively for parents or great parents on a daily basis already as teenagers.  This includes domestic work, physical care and escorting doctor or hospital visits.  Their education and other activities suffer from it, says Sadik Harchaoui of the Multicultural Institute Forum, who bases this on on data by the Social and Cultural Planning Bureau and her own estimates.

Adults Moroccan and Turkish-Dutch women also see the intensive care for their parents or in-laws more and more as a burden, since they combine that with work and their own family.

Source: NRC (Dutch)

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