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In light of all the abuse highlighted recently in care home a petition has been set to get CCTV's in care homes, it seems to be no other way to stop this happening to elderly people.
Please sign it if you can. :T
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/cctv-in-all-care-nursing-and-residential-homes.html
Please sign it if you can. :T
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/cctv-in-all-care-nursing-and-residential-homes.html
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I am not saying the whole care industry is a mess and there are some fantastic carers out there but the "industry" was usually staffed by people with a vocation to look after the vunerable and you rarely heard of the scale of abuse we see now. Some of the changes in society have led to care being a dumping ground for people who have to get a job somewhere or face benefit cuts and sanctions. They hate what they are doing and have no love for their charges some of them are cruel and nasty people who steal from their clients and hurt and abuse them.
It's become a financial calculation cheapest people on contracts that give no security whilst the Care companies are raking in big money for doing the job very badly in a lot of cases...
I have no intention of tarring all carers with the same brush I know some are fantastic but the bad ones give all a bad name sadly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9219495/Nurse-filmed-slapping-elderly-Alzheimers-sufferer-at-care-home.html
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/apr/23/hidden-footage-elderly-abuse-bbc-documentary
Petition signed and thank you for the post.
It's just not possible for people to give up their jobs to look after frail people full-time. And I, for one, have no children or relatives who could look after me. I dread the day that I go into a home.
I am in the same situation as you and wonder about who will look after me. I have cared for two relatives in old age/illness not including helping my mother care for my granny when I was a kid. It is possible.