Posted on 03/11/2012 10:01:42 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
Some older people routinely have to wait up to three months for formal checks for painful conditions such as bed sores, according to figures from the health care watchdog.
A quarter were not given a choice of male or female staff to help them use the lavatory and more than a third of care homes surveyed admitted delays in getting medication to residents.
Campaigners blamed NHS bureaucrats showing a “lack of interest” and failing to provide expert assessments for conditions as basic as incontinence.
The findings emerged after almost 1,000 elderly people yesterday descended on Parliament to lobby their MPs calling for a radical overhaul of the social care system.
Paul Burstow, the care minister, signalled that a widely anticipated white paper of the future of social care had been delayed until next month insisting: “Getting it right is better than rushing it out and getting it wrong.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
You would be correct - just went through 2 years of nursing home 'hell' with someone .... and I was VERY proactive, visited every day (sometimes more than once) & had the authorities involved .... they STILL couldn't get it right.
It is here.
Going through this now.
Family member developed bed sores at Select Specialty.
We all visited daily too, because most people in these places don’t give a rats ass about patients e.g. patient is in uncomfortable position, they don’t move patient in comfortable position, they dope them.
Medical treatment has extended and created patient issues that have kept patient in hospital months longer than original issue.
Everything is driven by insurance and there are very few doctors, nurses or other staff that really care about outcome. They just pass you on.
Is it any wonder that the first thing the democrats did was to exempt themselves from ObamaCare?
Congress and the top Federal Bureaucrats have their own sweet system independent of the garbage they mandated on we peasants. They have outstanding health insurance and long-term care insurance. They mandated Obama care for us.
Anything they pass for ‘we the people’, they should be subject to as well .... NO exceptions. The ‘insider trading’ issue is another good example .... okay for them, not for us ‘regular’ folks.
Yes indeed.
We have our own Washington, DC version of the old Soviet Nomenklatura.
A self appointed royalty crushing the people, exempting themselves from all their own bad laws.
Ping
I have a crazy idea....stop pawning our elderly off into rest homes, and have relatives taking care of them, instead. Sorry if it impedes on their wonderful lives and all that, but it should be considered their responsibility.
——I have a crazy idea....stop pawning our elderly off into rest homes, and have relatives taking care of them, instead. Sorry if it impedes on their wonderful lives and all that, but it should be considered their responsibility.——
I expect this return to the state of nature to be a moot point, shortly.
Sadly, many elderly will be dropped off in the woods, by their pro-choice kids.
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