If people being able to see what goes on inside care homes will result in care homes being vilified, maybe people really need to be able to see what’s going on inside care homes.
‘If people can see how bad things are they’ll hate us’ is not a good look.
Sounds like they dont want to be exposed for leaving vulnerable people in disgusting conditions, being subject to abuse.
If i wasn’t allowed to visit my nan I would be immediately jumping on the gun thinking she is being abused or being forced to care for herself while there.
Sounds scummy af.
>One care home has even stopped phone calls between residents and loved ones for fear that handsets could get infected.
This is the most tenuous excuse I’ve ever heard. Just what are they so concerned about us finding when visiting (or even just speaking to) our relatives?
> While official visiting restrictions in England have been lifted, some care homes and hospitals are refusing to allow visitors or are imposing stringent Covid-19 conditions. One care home has even stopped phone calls between residents and loved ones for fear that handsets could get infected
that really is just inhumane, those in care aren’t prisoners, many won’t have long left and they’re cutting them away from contact with loved ones for the flimsiest of reasons
they could mandate a covid test before visiting and wearing masks during the visit, those seem like reasonable measures to protect a vulnerable population, but social contact is just so important for mental well-being and protecting against mental decline I really have very little sympathy for care homes here
I work for the NHS so go to a lot of care homes and most are perfectly reasonable places. People like to crap on care homes, though I’ve come to think it’s led by people that keep their parent’s stuck in a giant home getting bored out of their heads because they want their inheritance rather than using the house to pay for their care.
I’ve seen multiple people get a new lease of life on entering a care home, I feel sorry for those that have an awful idea of care homes (which this article helps give the idea of) and thus are scared to go in one, and see out their days watching daytime tv in a giant expensive house they can’t afford to heat.
I worked in many cares homes. Some good and some bad. The worse one was when people buzzed they never answered or used to make comments like “ buzzing again are we” stuff like that is annoying since they need the help. So go help them!
I worked in some good care homes that used to do weekly activities and other stuff, trips out to the supermarket on a bus. But I went to one with staff that are not from the uk. Cheap labour. They hide the fact they are a bad carehome. People come around to visit and they say stuff like, she had a bad night last night, kept buzzing but she’s just confused or they have a quick whip round and put people to bed who’s going to kick up to visitors. I worked briefly at different care homes over a 2 year period. Some patients got left for hours when buzzing because short staffed or just don’t care. Sometimes they would not allow them phone calls.
Lucky now days people have phones so can text. And the internet. So stuff can easily be bought up. But not everyone can use that to its fullest
Have kids and raise them right to make sure you’re looked after cause there’s no way the state will do it for you.
Can’t believe white peoples just dump their parents into care homes lmao
My auntie was in a care home for a few weeks when Covid was more of a thing and we were not allowed to visit her inside the care home, they made us stand in a *shrubbery* by the window to her room. I snuck in through the window to give her a hug because she really needed a hug and some human contact, rather than the ‘Mother Theresa’s Home For The Dying’ treatment she was getting.
The way people are being batch processed here is bad.
I work nights as a support worker personally I’ve only done this for a year and set out to do this for a year as a change when I got made redundant because of brexit and then covid hit for two years so I retrained online but will keep going until next spring at latest.
The home I work in mostly and others I visit through the agency have serious staffing shortages and most of the people if not all only work one or two days a week and are on benefits of some sort or tax credits? I was quite surprised when I was rebuffed when I first applied for the agency when I said I’d like to work a 4 day week but have managed it through doing the unfavourable shifts of Sat/Sun but its hard work competing against an endless roundabout of agency staff working one day a week doing the same job for 10+ years
I worked in engineering for 25 years and can honestly say I have never met so many horrible people in my life as I have since I started this job that includes the managers and regular staff.
I work for a council run home and it’s skimped to the bone a full size kitchen/ no cook lots of packaged meals or staff and managers having a bash at cooking, tinned ham being the main vein of tasty nourishment in a dilapidated building that needs repair, broken down washing machines for three months now not fixed, petty pilfering of foods from kitchen by certain members of staff, and a nasty polish women trying to put people off in case she loses a shift who is managers miss goody two shoes but is really a lying psycho and management who are super rude to the employees and residents getting up at all hours to check the notice board to see who’s working tomorrow and dreading it.
I am grateful I can leave and move back to engineering next year.
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If people being able to see what goes on inside care homes will result in care homes being vilified, maybe people really need to be able to see what’s going on inside care homes.
‘If people can see how bad things are they’ll hate us’ is not a good look.
Sounds like they dont want to be exposed for leaving vulnerable people in disgusting conditions, being subject to abuse.
If i wasn’t allowed to visit my nan I would be immediately jumping on the gun thinking she is being abused or being forced to care for herself while there.
Sounds scummy af.
>One care home has even stopped phone calls between residents and loved ones for fear that handsets could get infected.
This is the most tenuous excuse I’ve ever heard. Just what are they so concerned about us finding when visiting (or even just speaking to) our relatives?
> While official visiting restrictions in England have been lifted, some care homes and hospitals are refusing to allow visitors or are imposing stringent Covid-19 conditions. One care home has even stopped phone calls between residents and loved ones for fear that handsets could get infected
that really is just inhumane, those in care aren’t prisoners, many won’t have long left and they’re cutting them away from contact with loved ones for the flimsiest of reasons
they could mandate a covid test before visiting and wearing masks during the visit, those seem like reasonable measures to protect a vulnerable population, but social contact is just so important for mental well-being and protecting against mental decline I really have very little sympathy for care homes here
I work for the NHS so go to a lot of care homes and most are perfectly reasonable places. People like to crap on care homes, though I’ve come to think it’s led by people that keep their parent’s stuck in a giant home getting bored out of their heads because they want their inheritance rather than using the house to pay for their care.
I’ve seen multiple people get a new lease of life on entering a care home, I feel sorry for those that have an awful idea of care homes (which this article helps give the idea of) and thus are scared to go in one, and see out their days watching daytime tv in a giant expensive house they can’t afford to heat.
I worked in many cares homes. Some good and some bad. The worse one was when people buzzed they never answered or used to make comments like “ buzzing again are we” stuff like that is annoying since they need the help. So go help them!
I worked in some good care homes that used to do weekly activities and other stuff, trips out to the supermarket on a bus. But I went to one with staff that are not from the uk. Cheap labour. They hide the fact they are a bad carehome. People come around to visit and they say stuff like, she had a bad night last night, kept buzzing but she’s just confused or they have a quick whip round and put people to bed who’s going to kick up to visitors. I worked briefly at different care homes over a 2 year period. Some patients got left for hours when buzzing because short staffed or just don’t care. Sometimes they would not allow them phone calls.
Lucky now days people have phones so can text. And the internet. So stuff can easily be bought up. But not everyone can use that to its fullest
Have kids and raise them right to make sure you’re looked after cause there’s no way the state will do it for you.
Can’t believe white peoples just dump their parents into care homes lmao
My auntie was in a care home for a few weeks when Covid was more of a thing and we were not allowed to visit her inside the care home, they made us stand in a *shrubbery* by the window to her room. I snuck in through the window to give her a hug because she really needed a hug and some human contact, rather than the ‘Mother Theresa’s Home For The Dying’ treatment she was getting.
The way people are being batch processed here is bad.
I work nights as a support worker personally I’ve only done this for a year and set out to do this for a year as a change when I got made redundant because of brexit and then covid hit for two years so I retrained online but will keep going until next spring at latest.
The home I work in mostly and others I visit through the agency have serious staffing shortages and most of the people if not all only work one or two days a week and are on benefits of some sort or tax credits? I was quite surprised when I was rebuffed when I first applied for the agency when I said I’d like to work a 4 day week but have managed it through doing the unfavourable shifts of Sat/Sun but its hard work competing against an endless roundabout of agency staff working one day a week doing the same job for 10+ years
I worked in engineering for 25 years and can honestly say I have never met so many horrible people in my life as I have since I started this job that includes the managers and regular staff.
I work for a council run home and it’s skimped to the bone a full size kitchen/ no cook lots of packaged meals or staff and managers having a bash at cooking, tinned ham being the main vein of tasty nourishment in a dilapidated building that needs repair, broken down washing machines for three months now not fixed, petty pilfering of foods from kitchen by certain members of staff, and a nasty polish women trying to put people off in case she loses a shift who is managers miss goody two shoes but is really a lying psycho and management who are super rude to the employees and residents getting up at all hours to check the notice board to see who’s working tomorrow and dreading it.
I am grateful I can leave and move back to engineering next year.