Bbc Panorama On Elderly In Care

[emmie]

last evening, if this has been posted already sorry, i did look,
any one watch, if so what are your thoughts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27128011

[emmie]

i am not so much shocked but am concerned that whistle blowers seem to get the sack, thus keeping these homes, nursing staff in business.

[dave50]

I don't know how anyone can treat any vulnerable person in such a way. Have they no compassion or empathy? Don't they feel for them? Why are people like that employed in such a profession?

[emmie]

because they don't get paid a lot, 7 quid or just over an hour, no compassion, not even good nursing skills, the only good thing was the sacking and prosecution of two of the staff, it very worrying that as the population ages, more will end up in these type of homes, they are not even cheap and cheerless.

[emmie]

the police are now looking into this,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-27234969

[vakayu]

Absolutely horrendous treatment it is frightening to think this may happen to us one day,I don't think that being paid more money would help necessarily as I feel that it itself would then attract the wrong type of person,having said that some of the staff shown were not even humane in my view,you cannot train someone to be compassionate or have a natural caring nature you either have it or not.

[emmie]

agree, i was dismayed at the treatment, the poor old lady calling to go to the toilet over 300 times, inhumane.

[ladybirder]

I'm sure there are many caring and compassionate people who earn only £7/hr or less. These people were not caring and compassionate and were in the wrong job.

[viv38]

Broke my heart, after a bit I couldn't watch. Denied even the basics of going to the toilet and that poor lady who said some of the nurses hated her, well I cried I'm afraid. Terrible !

[emmie]

viv, so did i. I am sure there are caring staff, but this isn't an isolated case.
the care home was beautiful inside and the grounds, so not some run down care home, not to say that you would have uncaring staff in it but you get my drift. They have passed inspections, so should be fit for purpose
but the whistleblowers in many of these places generally are not believed, or moved out, sacked.

[viv38]

Sadly emmie, it seems to be happening more and more. Makes you terrified of getting old.

[emmie]

some of the adult children installed private cameras where they were concerned for the parents welfare, and sadly been proved right that the parent was being abused. Maybe that is the only way, cctv in all the rooms, or the threat of them alone might make some of these staff behave

[TOWIE24]

My Mum was physically abused in a Care Home. I can't watch these documentaries seeing the abusers doing their foul deeds without wanting to punch the tv screen.

It's not about low pay, these abusers are thugs and bullies who take great pleasure from dishing out their treatment.