AIBU to think that the treatment given to dementia sufferers and older vulnerable people needs to change?

[FaithlessInsomnia]

It’s in the news that Dementia needs to be made an NHS Priority. AIBU to think that the treatment given to dementia sufferers and older vulnerable people needs to change? The inadequate and unacceptable care given to older vulnerable people needs to investigated and addressed.

Do the so called carers not realise that they too could become elderly and may need care of some sort in their life? Would they want to be treated like this?

Some care home fees are extortionate in costs and this is the so called carers the residents get.

Maybe residents get better quality of care in the expensive care homes, maybe they don’t.

I personally would not want to be treated so appallingly in my advancing years at a time when I would be at my most vulnerable. If this is what it all amounts to then I would rather have option of assisted dying before getting to that stage.

Families accuse care home of 'neglect' and 'cruelty' after secret filming

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clylxpjdx8wo

Not quite your question OP but watching my father deteriorate with dementia I strongly believe assisted dying should be available after a diagnosis. There is no way I want to live like he is or put my loved ones through it. There is zero quality of life and no chance of recovery. It is unbelievably cruel, and he’s in a good care home.

YANBU.
I agree with the above assisted dying should be available. The early stages people can still have some quality of life but as it goes on quality disappears slowly.

I also believe dementia care should be under the NHS with properly trained staff.
It definitely shouldn't be left to private companies out to make profit and Carers with minimal training on minimum wage.
We expect childcarers to be fully trained with qualifications why are elderly people not the same. And if anything they are probably even more vulnerable than children.

@HermioneWeasley As difficult as it is I completely agree. I have three friends who have had parents wither away with dementia and its been excruciating. Mine had the good grace to drop dead from a heat attack and get cancer both at advanced ages.

It’s not true that all people died young in the past some always made great ages. But people are kept alive at all costs now that would never have lived in the past. Modern medicine can be seen as a great triumph for humanity but also a detriment. No more survival of the fittest.

Obviously they should be cared for better, but you have to look at why it is not happening now - low pay, difficult working conditions and little chance of career progression. There are currently thousands of vacancies which used to be filled by workers from overseas, but fewer visas are being given out now so the situation is only going to get worse.

@FaithlessInsomnia Your last statement about assisted suicide is exactly what this government wants, if you watch any of the debates around the suicide bill it is clear, they even said that feeling pressured to kill yourself should not stop drs from helping you kill yourself.
Labour has refused to back ammendments that would guarantee access to palliative care or dementia care.
If you want to see where we're heading look at the Canadian MAID act.
Old age care is only going to get worse especially as men are allowed to care for vulnerable women and women are raped to death in hospital wards and the staff cover it up by claiming that they didn't notice a woman bleeding to death and then cleaned the evidence up.
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