Expats 'should consider healthcare issues'
British retirees have been urged to consider healthcare issues if they are planning to move overseas.
According to the Telegraph, the "exodus" of people choosing to set up home overseas is showing no signs of abating.
This has prompted the newspaper to take practical issues into account, such as access to medical facilities in their new home.
Expatriates were told that some countries are trying to clamp down on "health tourism" by limiting the level of access to foreign nationals.
Therefore, it has recommended that expatriates take out medical insurance or risk "flirting with disaster".
The Telegraph commented: "Many of those retiring to the sun are doing so at a time when body and brain begin to disintegrate at increasing speed."
According to a recent poll by NatWest International, more than two-thirds of British expatriates feel healthier because they live abroad.
However, this was partially attributed to their perceptions of their quality of life, rather than the amount their new homes spend on healthcare provision.
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