britains care homes

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i watched a program yesterday about a care home in devon (i think) for the elderly , and i felt sickened at how they were treated at this home , all the staff looked like they just did not care about them, in the end the place was closed down.

The sad thing is theres more care homes just like this, so why does the care home system seem to get badly neglected?
 
beachBOYken said:
The sad thing is theres more care homes just like this, so why does the care home system seem to get badly neglected?
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Because there is no public outcry, people are happy to march around london because a child in care scraped his knee but with old people just just tend to....forget.

My Step Mother is a manager of a private old peoples home and as far as I can tell it really is a case of "you get what you pay for", unfortunatly that ranges from "absolute luxury" to "flat out abuse and neglect".

It's sad but people jsut don't care as much about the elderly as they do about, well pretty much everything else.
 
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To be fair, my Mum got her Aunt into a fantastic nursing home before she died funded by the council. It's all about having relatives determined to fight for your interests imo.
 
Janesy B said:
It was a dementia care home, not an elderly home. Get that straight.
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Actually they are all care homes. For example my care home is registered for elderly frail (EF), Elderley Mentally Frail (EMI) and Learning difficulties (LD)

Or you could have a Care Home with nursing which once over was called a Nursing Home.

As for the programme last night, yes it was probably bad but lets not forget its a television programme and they will only highlight whats bad and try to paint the worst picture possible. I did not watch it but I believe they showed best practise from a care home who specialised in dementia care. I'm currently on a course with Dementia Care Matters and the Director is called David Sheard who us leading the course and is known to be one of our nations leaders in Dementia Care training. If your interested check out http://www.dementiacarematters.com/ I will be on his course for the next 10 months.
 
Privatisation, greedy owners, low wages, lack of training = Bad care home.
To much paper work as well, the one i used to work in, they would rush round getting there dutys done then spend 50% of the morning doing paper work. It takes them away from there core aspect of there job.


The show did show that if you treated the staff right, then the benefits would pass down to the general care.

Not all care homes are like the ones documented.
 
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LizardKing said:
Privatisation, greedy owners, low wages, lack of training = Bad care home.
To much paper work as well, the one i used to work in, they would rush round getting there dutys done then spend 50% of the morning doing paper work. It takes them away from there core aspect of there job.


The show did show that if you treated the staff right, then the benefits would pass down to the general care.

Not all care homes are like the ones documented.
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Not entirely true, care homes are underfunded and have been for many years. The care home that was showing best practise in last nights show gets anywhere between £575 to £900 per week funded from their local authority. Its not all about wages but when you are getting those sort of fees you can afford to pay your staff more wages. Their are thousands of good care homes up and down the country which are privatly owned but that statement takes the mick.

We get £390 - £460 funded from our local authority, our local authority care homes get £580 - £720 per week, you may think they must be better but their are two local authority care home in the same city which are 0 rated ie no stars.
 
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Not entirely true, care homes are underfunded and have been for many years. The care home that was showing best practise in last nights show gets anywhere between £575 to £900 per week funded from their local authority. Its not all about wages but when you are getting those sort of fees you can afford to pay your staff more wages. Their are thousands of good care homes up and down the country which are privatly owned but that statement takes the mick.

We get £390 - £460 funded from our local authority, our local authority care homes get £580 - £720 per week, you may think they must be better but their are two local authority care home in the same city which are 0 rated ie no stars.
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Privatisation is to open to exploitation - i never said it was the single point of a bad care home.

Its not just about wages, its the general management of staff, ie one of the care homes documented decided to take away meals on duty and one i know of expects the staff to pay for tea and coffee! that takes the mick, how anyone expects there staff to work 12 hours shifts on there feet with the bare minimum of breaks and still expect to return a decent level of care. They then wonder why they get slamed when csci comes a knocking!
 
I caught part of that program and also the one last week. I found it quite depressing really; the quality of life must be terrible in some cases and I'm sure there are many worse off than those shown.
 
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