A Heartbreaking photo goes around the world: An elderly man with white hair and gray tracksuit sitting crooked in his wheelchair. Opposite him an elderly woman also fell on a leather couch in together. Beside her is a walker. Both wipe handkerchiefs tears from his eyes. The two are a couple, married for 62 years – and they have to be separated. Involuntarily.
On Tuesday, the granddaughter of Wolf and Anita Gottschalk posted the touching photo on their Facebook page. Since then it has been a thousand times shared and commented on.
“This is he saddest photo I have ever taken” (German: “This is the saddest picture I’ve ever shot”), Ashley wrote Bartyik under the post. You’ve taken the photo in a transient hotel in Canadian Surrey, wait in the elderly it to come to a nursing home. “There my Opi is just,” she writes.
After 62 years of marriage lived her grandparents for eight months separated. The reason: The 83-year-old Wolf Gottschalk’m not in the same nursing home as his wife Anita, since there is a delay in processing his application, the granddaughter.
The couple originally according to a report by the British newspaper “Daily Mail” from Dusseldorf. More than 50 years the Gottschalk traveled together to Canada.
A few months ago, the health of Wolf Gottschalk deteriorated increasingly. First, his 81-year-old woman he had yet to cultivate, but in January his doctors had advised him to bring in a professional nursing facility, reports “Daily Mail”.
No room for both in a nursing home
Also Anita Gottschalk had in a nursing home. Of course, the two wanted to stay together, but the sad news of the authorities: there is no place for the couple in the same nursing home. Wolf Gottschalk is since then on a waiting list for the nursing home his wife. However, the health authorities could not say when and whether he could move, they say.
The family is now worried that the state of health of the 83-year-old continues to deteriorate. “His dementia is getting worse every day,” granddaughter Bartyik writes on Facebook. “But the memory of my grandma is undimmed – so far.” The family feared that this could change, the longer the couple live separately.
This means that the couple can see as much as possible, to help with the whole family. Every few days go another family member Anita Gottschalk to her husband – “so that he does not forget them,” Bartyik writes on Facebook. “They cry every time they see each other. It is heartbreaking.”
With their Facebook Post Bartyik tries to the situation of their grandparents to draw attention. She asks her friends for help: “Financially, physically and emotionally at the end, ask my family and I for your support,” she writes in despair. They have already contacted the competent health authorities, but so far without receiving a response. They hope to carry their Facebook Post to obtain the necessary attention. “My grandparents deserve to spend after 62 years of marriage, their last moments together in the same building.”
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