Britain’s elderly in council-funded care are being left hungry and unwashed, according to a report.
Published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the inquiry highlights not only cases of neglect by carers, but a disregard for people’s privacy, acts of cruelty and in some cases actual physical abuse.
Set up to investigate home care among the UK’s elderly population, the document said there was a “systematic failure” in the older people’s social care, which in many cases breached human rights.
Based on the testimony of 1,200 elderly recipients of home care, the commission reported that the cumulative impact of neglect can be “profoundly depressing and stressful” and can lead to “tears, frustration, expressions of a desire to die and feelings of being stripped of self-worth and dignity”. Full story...
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Published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the inquiry highlights not only cases of neglect by carers, but a disregard for people’s privacy, acts of cruelty and in some cases actual physical abuse.
Set up to investigate home care among the UK’s elderly population, the document said there was a “systematic failure” in the older people’s social care, which in many cases breached human rights.
Based on the testimony of 1,200 elderly recipients of home care, the commission reported that the cumulative impact of neglect can be “profoundly depressing and stressful” and can lead to “tears, frustration, expressions of a desire to die and feelings of being stripped of self-worth and dignity”. Full story...
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