Monthly Archives: May 2014

‘Will you help me please?’ Carers ignored old lady begging for help over 300 times in an hour

A 98-year-old woman lies in a care home bed begging for help. She cries out 321 times in just one hour, including 45 times to go to the toilet, but her carers simply ignore her. A month later she died

Alone and unable to move, a 98-year-old woman begs for a someone to help her to the toilet – but her desperate pleas go unanswered for an hour.

Despite care workers being outside her door, it took 321 cries for someone to eventually respond to bed-ridden Yvonne Grant