The findings from the Equality and Human Rights Commission inquiry into home care for older people shone a welcome light on the quality of care provided and its impact on people’s autonomy and dignity.
Category Archives: family
More must be done to improve the ‘care’ people receive in their own home
Why we must do more to protect those receiving home care
Without workforce regulation, the potential for poor care to remain hidden is enormous
When care takes place in people’s own homes, risks are magnified.
Doctors will have to draw up individual ‘death plans’
Doctors and carers told the dying ‘must be given religious support’ in new NHS guidelines
By Jenny Hope
Last updated at 10:52 AM on 30th November 2011
Duty and prayer: Doctors will have to make sure patients can access religious care at any time of day or night
Doctors and care workers have been told to ensure dying patients are given religious support and care at any time of day or night.
Good Paid carers are hopelessly over-stretched because of council cutbacks
Dogs in kennels are treated better than many of Britain’s elderly
Last updated at 11:22 AM on 25th November 2011
This week the viewing public cried over the sentimental John Lewis Christmas shopping advert with a cute young boy.
Then that bruiser Ed Balls confessed the Antiques Roadshow makes him blub. On Sunday nights millions sob because their favourite star has been voted off The X Factor or Strictly Come Dancing.
But when it comes to real pain, no one seems to care. The truth is that in Britain in 2011, few shed any tears over the cruel way the elderly are treated in this country. A new and shocking report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission shows that thousands of old people are being appallingly abused in their own homes by the very individuals employed to care for them.
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