>>212239307I'm not exactly sure what the exact legal status here is, but the general assumption is that if an old person is somewhere, at home, severally ill and he can't move and take care of himself, and nobody close takes care of him, then he is pretty much dead. Nobody from "the state" is going to just take him to a retirement center.
At least that is the assumption, maybe it's changed a bit recently but I doubt it.
In Romania, I remember there was a proposal a few years ago to give an amount of money to people who take care of elderly family members.