One in five care homes is failing to treat its elderly residents with dignity and respect, according to study by Commission for Social Care Inspection

One in five care homes lacks respect for elderly

Extract from the Telegraph:

"The report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) found nursing homes where vulnerable pensioners were treated like objects or patronised as if they were children. In some, staff laughed at the disabilities of the elderly or gave them drugs so they would sleep all day.

The survey of 100 care homes also discovered lonely residents who had no one to speak to, and were prevented from walking around the wards by nurses. Referring to the terms of the Human Rights Act, the report concluded: "One in five of the homes we inspected did not meet the requirements of the law in terms of affording people dignity and respect."

The CSCI issued half of the homes it surveyed with "statutory requirements", meaning they must improve their services in order to comply with official regulations. However, the true number of failing care homes is likely to be far greater, as the CSCI focused on those which it had previously rated "good" or "adequate"."

Coroner has criticised 'lamentable' care at nursing home

Coroner faults veteran's care at nursing home

Extract from the Telegraph:

"A war veteran died after being treated "like a parcel" by nursing home staff, a coroner has said.

Charles Hounslow, a former RAF pilot, was left to die in agony after carers failed to notice that he had a broken hip for two days.

Veronica Hamilton-Deeley, the Brighton coroner, used his inquest to demand better care for the elderly.

She summed up Mr Hounslow's treatment at Miles Court Nursing Home in Brighton, East Sussex, as "lamentable" and said she feared thousands of pensioners nationwide were suffering the same fate.

Mr Hounslow, 85, had suffered from vascular dementia since 2005 and needed round-the-clock care. He was admitted to Miles Court on April 7 and died on May 16.

Mrs Hamilton-Deeley said he "was treated like a parcel in the last few weeks of his life with insufficient emphasis placed on his wellbeing and care".

"There was a catalogue of incidents leading up to Mr Hounslow's death, all of which are examples of gross mismanagement at this nursing home," she said."

The government has agreed to provide £220m a year from the NHS budget to resolve a row over long-term care costs

NHS cash to tackle row over long-term care - Guardian

Extract:

"The government has agreed to provide £220m a year from the NHS budget to resolve a long-running row about who pays for the continuing care of patients transferred from hospital to nursing homes.

Ivan Lewis, the care services minister, said yesterday that the decision would help up to 10,000 people with severe dementia or other incapacitating conditions, who were liable to pay for intensive support to carry out the basic routines of daily life.

Mr Lewis said the aim was to eliminate a postcode lottery whereby older people in some parts of England were provided with free care, while others who might be in greater need were denied it."


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Elderly nursing home residents left in pain by care staff

Scandal of elderly left in pain by care staff

Extract:

"Elderly people in nursing homes are being left in "shocking pain" says a survey today, with two in five saying they are in constant agony, and others admitting to having suicidal thoughts.

The research, conducted confidentially among residents whose average age was 82, reveals the extent to which the frail and vulnerable are made to suffer unnecessarily.

It was carried out by the Patients Association, the independent lobby group led by Claire Rayner, a former nurse and midwife and well-known agony aunt."

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