Family Exporting Our Elders Unable to afford care at home, some families, including mine, are moving their elderly relatives abroad. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. My stepfather and I walked up a cobblestone street in the town of Chapala, Mexico, to an inconspicuous iron door built into a concrete wall. As we entered an enclosed garden, a winding path led us past a small office and into a communal courtyard surrounded by bright yellow buildings divided into apartments. We were there to visit my dad, who had recently and abruptly moved into a nursing home whose costs could be covered by his monthly Social Security check. His dementia and poor physical health had become too much for his husband to handle at their home in Washington state, and insurance would no longer cover his care at a medicalized facility outside Seattle.…