Home care for the elderly booms as Spaniards shun nursing homes


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  • Monday, 07 Dec 2020

A man and woman wear protective masks in a park in Madrid, Spain December 6, 2020. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho

MADRID (Reuters) - When Elena Lorenzo's 86-year-old sister Rosario fell in the middle of the night in her home in Spain's northern Galicia region and her husband struggled to assist her, they knew it was time to get help. But a nursing home was out of the question.

"There had been talk of a nursing home, but that was before COVID," Lorenzo said, recalling her sister's fall a few weeks ago.

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