Care homes face dawn raids after 'barbaric' abuse is exposed at private hospital...

[Lia]

This, along with the abuse of children, and the elderly, the subjugation and oppression of women from Asian and Arab countries, animal abuse, and many other injustices, is one of my pet rant themes. The torture and abuse of those, especially the elderly, and in many institutions in the UK has become a national scandal.

So many elderly care homes have been exposed, and closed, or placed under new management because of appalling abuse and inhumane treatment that one is at a loss for where to place an elderly relative who needs 24 hour care these days. It is an outrage that needs to be urgently addressed.

To my mind, if we can’t treat those of whom are responsible for our very existence, the elderly, in a decent, humane and respectable manner, for which they have earned the right to be treated, then we are no more than primitive barbarians.

In the case below, and in most cases, it is not just the fault of those who carry out the torture, humiliation and abuse, but it is very much the administrators and supervisor who are just as much at fault, and imho, these people, such as Dame Jo, and those in management here and elsewhere, should be sacked, stripped of their jobs and titles, never mind ruddy resign.

If an elderly relative of mine (or any family member, come to that)had been under the jurisdiction of Dame Jo, and treated as some have been in this, and/or other care homes, I would pursue her thro every court in the land until I had brought her, and her like, down... and, ordinarily I ain't a vengeful person.

The whistle-blower at the centre of a 'shocking' case of abuse of adults with learning difficulties first raised his concerns in October.

The Government has ordered a report into how warnings of systematic abuse towards vulnerable adults at Winterbourne View residential hospital, in Bristol, were not acted upon by local authorities and England's social care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The former nurse at the hospital has been named in reports as Terry Bryan. Despite contacting the care home's management and the CQC on several occasions his concerns failed to be followed up, according to reports today.


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[fogtender]

It is just sad to see anyone abused, yet it seems to be going on all over.

My mother had to be put into a nursing home because of her condition before she passed away, it required 24 hour medical attention. I would come to see her every day after work, read her the paper and spend a few hours with her before I would go home. All she could do was look at me and crack a little smile and squeeze my hand lightly.

But each day I was there, when I went to leave, there was and elderly man in a wheel chair, as i came though a double door, he would roll out and almost run into me with his chair, about the fourth time, as I went through the doorway I stopped and backed up and just like clockwork, he darted out but I wasn't there. I laughed and said "you missed me"! He was kinda gruff and said he wasn't trying to run into me he was just going to his room... Anyway I jokingly asked him what he was "in for" and he said his kids dumped him there. So every night after I got done with visiting with my mother, he was waiting for me at the doorway to talk to me for a few minutes, and he clearly was looking forward to our short chats. Each week the Same thing would happen a little farther down the halls as I left, by the time I saw my mother the last time before she was moved to Casper, WY where my dad was transferred before her passing, it would take me almost an extrahour before I could leave after visiting with her. These people were so lonely for someone to visit with them they came up with little things to get me to talk with them. I rather enjoyed chatting a few minutes with each one of them as i left each evening.

Most weren't that disabled, but they were a burden on their children/family's lifestyle and were dumped into these types of homes and forgot about without any real family contacts after a few short visits when they were first dropped there. I think guilt is what brought their family to visit at first, then it got easier to forget about them... Then they didn't come to visit at all.


To me, that was a massive abuse to the elderly. I regret not going back there now and then after my mother was moved. You could tell these folks really looked as if I was there just for them, all dozen of them.

 

[Lia]

You are a kind, thoughtful and considerate guy Foggy. I adore every one of my elderly relatives, and we all, as a family, would never think of leaving them in a care home without a constant stream of weekly visitors for them. We'd do it on rota if it was necessary, because sometimes, life takes over, and one can't always be consistent.

Whats a couple of hours a week out of anyone's life?

 

[Melensdad]

There are multiple types of adult abuse.

The abuse of neglect by their families, which is what Foggy experienced with some of the residents in the home where his mother live. The systemic neglect by bad staff in a bad facility, like Lia is reporting in her first post.

I am a strong believer in FAMILY HELPING FAMILY. Neither of my parents went to homes. My mother required long term care for a couple of years, she was bedridden for the last year, virtually non-responsive for the last few months. She got care inside my brothers home. Dad needed care but stayed at home until the last few days. Between my sister and myself we took care of him. My mother in law was bedridden for a decade. My sister in law gave up any chance of a career to care for her mom, my wife would take vacations several times a year, plus a month in the summer to care for her mom and to give her sister a break.

That is what FAMILY is supposed to do. Too many times people find it inconvenient to care for the elderly. It doesn't fit their lifestyle to care for their parent. They don't see the duty to care for their parent. Now there are plenty of examples of putting a parent into a home and giving proper care, just as Foggy did, he was there daily, he did sat by her side and didn't abandon his mom and that, to my mind, is perfectly acceptable.

But there are families that simply want to dump off their elderly. That alone is a form of abuse.

But the worst abuse of all is the intentionally bad care from a facility that simply doesn't give a damn about the residents. I think that the best care is found at care facilities with a strong PROFIT MOTIVE because they NEED to take care of their residents to draw in new ones and that comes from a good reputation, a well kept facility and well cared for residents.

 

[AAUTOFAB1]

It is just sad to see anyone abused, yet it seems to be going on all over.

Most weren't that disabled, but they were a burden on their children/family's lifestyle and were dumped into these types of homes and forgot about without any real family contacts after a few short visits when they were first dropped there. I think guilt is what brought their family to visit at first, then it got easier to forget about them... Then they didn't come to visit at all.


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The brake down of morales in our society my wifes grandma still lives at home with a live in caretaker and her mom who has dementia?,she is 99 years old and even with a full time care taker we are there every day to help with the changing and feeding.spend some time at dinner and such, i can't imagine going threw all that alone with out family around....