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Sign this to stop deathtrap nursing homes

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ProfessorDent · 20/02/2015 12:11

You have a month to sign this.

The seasonal debacle of Merok Park care home in Banstead, Surrey. Shut down at short notice by the Care Quality Commission because it stank of urine and found residents were bruised and battered. All moved on a cold November night in their nightshirts, and two of them die shortly afterwards, one of pneumonia. The details initially hushed up. The CQC slammed nursing homes in its reports but did not publish them or make them known to residents' relatives. Bizarre - you can post a review of a make-up item or new pop LP or hotel on Amazon or TripAdvisor, but try to get user information about the care home you are putting your relative in - forget it. It is the Wild West out there and no sheriff in town.

No one in authority is taking legal action against the rich nursing home owners, who are quoted by local reporters as saying they 'don't care'.

Currently all exposes of care homes come from journalists or concerned relatives with hidden cameras. Not Social Services of the CQC.

And here's the thing. FFS Get Power of Attorney in Health and Welfare for your ageing parents. Esp if they have early onset Parkinson's or Alzheimers. Otherwise once it kicks in and they have dementia, you will not be able get it for them, and arrogant medics and power-mad social services will then own your relative. You will be papering over the cracks of their incompetence only to find they get resentful and come down on you hard. You could fear for your dad's life in some deathtrap nursing home and decide to whisk him back to your place for safety - social services will turn up on your doorstep and put him back there. Shock They will have the power to decide what is good for him. Not you.

www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/epsomnews/11799626.Daughter_of_woman_placed_in_failing_nursing_home_launches_petition_for_judge_led_inquiry_into_care_homes_crisis/

Please sign petition at bottom, you only have a month to do it. And do look into that Power of Attorney thing, or you will rue the day. (Not you, Nick Cotton...)

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