Carer who abused dementia-stricken pensioner days before he died was given ‘nursing’ job at hospital just months later

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1. Your lucky our country doesn’t have police or you’d be in real trouble!

2. My grandmother was abused in a care home and ultimately died as a result. When we spoke to a detective that day he said the police are not in the job of policing the ethics of death. The CQC did nothing despite years of complaints about the facility from multiple other families. The scale of elder and disabled abuse in this country is horrific and enabled by systems that do not care about the lives of vulnerable people.

3. Who wants to be paid exactly minimum wage (or less in home health, as they don’t pay travel time), to spend 12 hours on your feet, up to your elbows in faeces, getting punched and bit.
   In the last 17 years I’ve worked exactly 3 months with another person who was also born in the UK.
   I work nights, so I’d get paid £4 more an hour stocking shelves in ASDA.
   And I bring in my own body wash and powder, because the homes let them run out.
   Honestly, you get what you pay for.
   Not those in care, they tend to pay £1500 a week, but us carers get paid minimum wage.
   It disgusting

4. I prefer a carer robot to a nasty human any day.

5. Any vile human being caught abusing elderly deserves life in prison. Get every room kitted out with cameras to catch the scum.

6. I’ve worked in a mental health company. Some people were there basically because they wanted to be carers, not progress any of the patients, but just work as a carer (basically sit around with them and watch tv). They worked in mental health, as it usually pays a bit more.

   The people who work there can be split into groups
   There are people there who want to gain some experience to supplement their psychology/mental health education (or something similar).

   Then, there are people who have worked in mental health or care their whole carer, are passionate about it, and are what they like to do.

   Then, there are people who could not work anywhere else. Without being harsh, they wouldn’t be able to stack shelves at Tesco. It seems ridiculous that they should work with the most vulnerable people, but there is high turnover, so people are always needed.

   Then, there is a group that is incredibly dangerous. They have their own issues and need to take it out on people. They start by taking it out on their fellow staff. If it doesn’t work, they will start with the patients. They are disgusting people who are rotten to their core. They just go from one company to another as soon as they get sacked or are close to it.

   Leadership is that these companies are awful. They dont just stamp this behaviour out, and because they are difficult, they just hope they leave to the next place. Unfortunately, it will end with them hurting someone.

   And the worst thing about it. 9/10, they get away with it, as the company doesn’t want to get the bad press. Unless the whole mental health/care industry tightens its recruitment and standards, this will happen over and over again.

   In the end, the people who will suffer are the people working there, trying to do a good job, and the patients.

7. So she murdered him and she can stay here?!

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