Waldviertel: Dementia patient has to wait 5 months for nursing home

Waldviertel: At Christmas the father dies, the mother who suffers from dementia remains behind. What happened afterwards for Manuela W. (64) and her sister a month-long struggle for a care place for the severely ill mother. 5 months and two exhausted daughters later, the dementia-sick woman finally gets the higher level of care and is allowed into a nursing home. The failure of the Lower Austrian health system in 3 files. When the father of Manu…