Out With the Old

Two care home workers have been caught meting out some rough justice to an eighty-nine-year-old dementia sufferer, perhaps for sitting around all day or for her contribution to the pensions crisis. The standard of care at the home was such that the woman's daughter had given up her job in order to do the big-societal thing and help the staff care for her mother. The daughter and her husband observed bruises, and began to suspect that the merchandise was being rather carelessly handled; the care home staff were so concerned that the husband was eventually driven to bug the room on his own initiative with a hidden camera. The level of neglect and abuse recorded will no doubt go to show why so many more experienced care staff need replacing with semi-trained casual labour, and why their supervision needs efficientising until it's hardly there at all.