I mean to be fair, its unlikely that the other 99% was also caught on camera.
But yeah this is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. We are really to willing as a society to ignore the issues that affect our most vulnerable.
Sadly though I suppose the question is, how do we address it?
Not that it’s right but a lot of care homes struggle to keep employees because the pay is so shit for the work conditions that the managers will tolerate anything.
Even if you only show up to work once a week, have two hour lunches they’ll just ignore it because they need workers so bad (other than raising pay of course).
That leads to having workers who are abusive and with poor ethics because as long as they’re doing their hours they’ll look the other way.
I’ve witnessed and reported abuse from.an agency worker in a care home. In the job I’d been assaulted, called names and dealt with all sorts of behaviours that is the only time I have felt my blood boil in the job. Myself and 2 other colleagues wrote statements about what had been witnessed to our management. The only repercussions was he got banned from the home we worked in. No police follow up no nothing
I will never let anyone I love go into a care home compus mentis, and even then it would be at the very last stages of end of life.
Seen and experienced too many bad things going on in some of these places.
We need to stop dumping the frail and elderly into these places: I’m trying to get planing permission to convert/extend part my home as a future care plan for my elderly mother and her partner. Unfortunately the council planners are being obstructive.
Care homes are one of the lowest paying employers. It’s bizzare to me that we allow the care of our loved ones to fall into the hands of lowest paid. It’s a vital job that should be well paid so we can select quality staff. At the moment if you have 2 hands and 2 legs you pretty much meet recruiting criteria for working in care home because they are running at 60% safe staffing levels on a good day and will take anyone.
If a charge isn’t made, can’t they at least ban these people from ever working in care again? It’s awful knowing people like this work with vulnerable people, they shouldn’t be anywhere near them. What even makes people want to treat others this way? Not just carelessness from being tired but actually harassing and assaulting people who can’t protect themselves. It’s sad.
It’s a good thing that the CCTV caught the shamelessness that the staff was doing to the patient, I hope he will be charged and jailed.
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I mean to be fair, its unlikely that the other 99% was also caught on camera.
But yeah this is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. We are really to willing as a society to ignore the issues that affect our most vulnerable.
Sadly though I suppose the question is, how do we address it?
Not that it’s right but a lot of care homes struggle to keep employees because the pay is so shit for the work conditions that the managers will tolerate anything.
Even if you only show up to work once a week, have two hour lunches they’ll just ignore it because they need workers so bad (other than raising pay of course).
That leads to having workers who are abusive and with poor ethics because as long as they’re doing their hours they’ll look the other way.
I’ve witnessed and reported abuse from.an agency worker in a care home. In the job I’d been assaulted, called names and dealt with all sorts of behaviours that is the only time I have felt my blood boil in the job. Myself and 2 other colleagues wrote statements about what had been witnessed to our management. The only repercussions was he got banned from the home we worked in. No police follow up no nothing
I will never let anyone I love go into a care home compus mentis, and even then it would be at the very last stages of end of life.
Seen and experienced too many bad things going on in some of these places.
We need to stop dumping the frail and elderly into these places: I’m trying to get planing permission to convert/extend part my home as a future care plan for my elderly mother and her partner. Unfortunately the council planners are being obstructive.
Care homes are one of the lowest paying employers. It’s bizzare to me that we allow the care of our loved ones to fall into the hands of lowest paid. It’s a vital job that should be well paid so we can select quality staff. At the moment if you have 2 hands and 2 legs you pretty much meet recruiting criteria for working in care home because they are running at 60% safe staffing levels on a good day and will take anyone.
If a charge isn’t made, can’t they at least ban these people from ever working in care again? It’s awful knowing people like this work with vulnerable people, they shouldn’t be anywhere near them. What even makes people want to treat others this way? Not just carelessness from being tired but actually harassing and assaulting people who can’t protect themselves. It’s sad.
It’s a good thing that the CCTV caught the shamelessness that the staff was doing to the patient, I hope he will be charged and jailed.