Death-trap Care Homes

Napoleon Plural

Hi, you may have read a whole load about care home scandals recently. My mother has been in a few in the last 3 years and I can tell you that they are generally disgraceful, even the 'good' ones. She nearly died last year after one left her deyhdrated and she went into A&E. Others from that home actually did. While you can leave an opinion on a Bond film on imdb, there are no such review sites for care homes or nursing homes, probably because the homes are highly litigious.

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The seasonal debacle of Merok Park care home in Banstead, Surrey. Shut down at short notice by the Care Quality Commission because it stank of urine and found residents were bruised and battered. All moved on a cold November night in their nightshirts, and two of them die shortly afterwards, one of pneumonia. The details initially hushed up. The CQC slammed nursing homes in its reports but did not publish them or make them known to residents' relatives. Bizarre - you can post a review of a make-up item or new pop LP or hotel on Amazon or TripAdvisor, but try to get user information about the care home you are putting your relative in - forget it. It is the Wild West out there and no sheriff in town.

No one in authority is taking legal action against the rich nursing home owners, who are quoted by local reporters as saying they 'don't care'.

Currently all exposes of care homes come from journalists or concerned relatives with hidden cameras. Not Social Services of the CQC.

And here's the thing. FFS Get Power of Attorney in Health and Welfare for your ageing parents. Esp if they have early onset Parkinson's or Alzheimers. Otherwise once it kicks in and they have dementia, you will not be able get it for them, and arrogant medics and power-mad social services will then own your relative. You will be papering over the cracks of their incompetence only to find they get resentful and come down on you hard. You could fear for your dad's life in some deathtrap nursing home and decide to whisk him back to your place for safety - social services will turn up on your doorstep and put him back there. They will have the power to decide what is good for him. Not you.

Please sign petition at bottom, you only have a month to do it. And do look into that Power of Attorney thing, or you will rue the day. (Not you, Nick Cotton... ) )

AlphaOmegaSin

Signed it -{

Silhouette Man

I've signed the petition also - thanks for bringing this to our attention, Nap. Also shared the article on Twitter. -{

Thunderpussy

Done, Hope it gets plenty of support. -{

The Red Kind

Signed.

danjaq_0ff

Signed.

always shaken

Well im afraid ,this is what happens when you let the wicked witch (Thatcher ) sell of all of Britains assets to her school chums .
The same has happened to our water ,gas ,electric,railways,prisons,school dinners,traffic wardens,ect ect ,its all been sold off to the cheapest bidder . How as a nation did we ever let this woman sell off everthing??. now we are paying the price .And don't start about Thatcher defeating the Argies,they shouldn't have been able to set foot there in the first bloody place. X-(

Thunderpussy

All politicians are scumbags, they look after the banks and big companies before ever giving a
thought to the people of Britain. As for privatisation, they simply swap a Government owned
Monopoly for a Privately owned Monopoly. Same bad service, you just pay more for it !

minigeff

Signed!

Napoleon Plural

Thanks everyone! I should point out that you have to be a UK citizen to sign.