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A landmark programme of unannounced inspections in hospitals and care homes has found that more than a third are still failing to respect elderly people?s basic dignity, despite a series of scandals.
Unannounced inspections at 500 homes and 50 hospitals in response to growing public anger over the treatment of some of the most vulnerable people in society, found many are routinely being denied privacy, not properly fed or simply ignored.
Inspectors from the the health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) heard staff openly dismissing frail elderly people as ?lost causes? as if they were not in the room and nicknaming those needing assistance at meal time as ?feeders?.
They uncovered cases of care home residents forced to endure the indignity of using lavatories with no doors, supposedly for their own good, or made to wear bibs at meal times when they did not need to.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/e...alised-abuse-in-care-homes-and-hospitals.html
Unannounced inspections at 500 homes and 50 hospitals in response to growing public anger over the treatment of some of the most vulnerable people in society, found many are routinely being denied privacy, not properly fed or simply ignored.
Inspectors from the the health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) heard staff openly dismissing frail elderly people as ?lost causes? as if they were not in the room and nicknaming those needing assistance at meal time as ?feeders?.
They uncovered cases of care home residents forced to endure the indignity of using lavatories with no doors, supposedly for their own good, or made to wear bibs at meal times when they did not need to.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/e...alised-abuse-in-care-homes-and-hospitals.html