I think one of the problems with the older ones (particularly when theres only one left) is although they don't have a mortgage a lot of these places in Spain are pretty much unsellable so they're unable to finance a return home. I told my mate he ought to get the father in law to jump on a plane to Heathrow, bin his passport and then claim to be a deaf & dumb asylum seeker so he's put in a publicly funded care home