In every pharmacy there is a compartment, drawer or cupboard with pads and “adult diapers”, i.e. incontinence products. Not just in those that supply retirement homes. And I would be very surprised if these compartments hadn’t gotten higher and higher over the last ten or twenty years, along with the shelves for hygiene products in drugstores and the average age of the German population.

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