Going to find this and watch it this morning. However this -
Poppyinafieldofdreams
Exploitation of the elderly is rife and a massive hidden scandal. Someone we know had their house stolen we suspect by a care worker when the owner had Alzheimer’s. It’s common place from what I have read. You really need to monitor your parents. The people doing this get away with it. It’s dreadful. Nobody is bothered.
Is in my experience, so sadly true. I was a good (senior) care assistant, I cared, I was constantly deprived of the equipment, staff, training and basic necessities to do my job properly.
I whistleblew on 2 occasions. One I was called to an NMC hearing as a witness, because of something the rgn manager did. I want to protect the poor resident and his family, but I was prevented getting him help when he needed it. Luckily I'm smarter than him and the help was made available, and csci (now cqc) made aware. He sacked me on the spot. I was asked back 2 days later by the assistant manager.
I no longer work in care, and many good care workers I know don't either, I burned out constantly fighting for what should have been delivered without question for those in our care. I came to the conclusion that until profit from people's care is capped or ideally stopped, none of this will stop, because the driving force is profit for the owners, and that's leading to utterly shit decisions regarding people's care, corner cutting and money saving schemes. I'd love to see all care homes run in a non for profit way, or profit capped at a certain % and anything else ploughed back into the good of the clients. I wish I'd had the energy and strength to keep fighting, I made a difference to a few people, just not enough, and as the above pp said, no body is bothered, no one listens, something like this comes along and the public are up in arms for a few weeks, and then it dies down and everyone forgets again. It should be a national scandal, government should be taking this seriously instead of pissing around with Brexit. There shouldn't be a next time.