Eastern European care assistant lives in with couple needing help in Duffel: “There’s no better place for me to be than here.”
Now that nursing homes have taken such a serious blow to their image during the Covid-19 crisis, services like ZorgGezelschap from Kontich and Sint-Katelijne-Waver are getting a real boost as an alternative. Marcel Smits (86) and his wife in need of help Landrea (84) from Duffel have had Angela living with them as a care assistant for three months now. “It took some adjusting to at first, but now we’re like family.”