Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "There is ‘something seriously wrong’: fears carer pay rise could shut nursing homes" video.
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@hollysmith1347 Your comment doesn't make sense. You say in the past people dumpted the elderly or disabled, to justify people doing it today. I'm sure there was elder abuse in the past as there is today. But it was common a few years ago for nursing homes to restrain (tie up) residents, especially those with dementia. I don't see why this practice would have stopped. If your parents have dementia you have my sympathy. Do you have siblings? Surely the care could be shared. There are many in house services available to the elderly. Age care workers will bath and dress them, and day respite care is available if you really both need to work. It's true that the elderly are getting older. So most people whose parents need care have adult children, and are not trying to care for children and the elderly at the same time.
When my mother was elderly, and in need of care, she was still able to entertain her young great grandchildren with stories and songs, which allowed their mothers to study from home without daycare. And she was always good company for adults, she was quite in demand, staying with me, my adult children's or my sisters. I understand ofcourse that dementia is different to purely physical disability. Best wishes.
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@hollysmith1347 Please don't think I was blaming you. I know how hard it is to care for younger siblings, when you are still so young yourself. Your story is a tragety. My mother was always lucid in her mind, and always kind and generous, though often naughty, only her body failed. She worked in aged care most of her adult life and had an absolute fear of ever being in one.
Many of the issues of today did not exist in the 1970s and 80s.
For example I think it was law then that there had to be a registered nurse 24 hours a day. It was common for older registered nurses to buy nursing homes and live on the premises to cover any times when the nurse who was rostered could not work. And most of the staff were enrolled nurses. These establishments ussually only catered for 10 - 30 residents.
On the other hand there were few single occupancy rooms, and no ensuites etc. However the food was excellent. The staff ussually ate the food as well. I actually worked in the kitchens as a teenager on the school holidays. One of my tasks was to arrange the trays for people who were bedridden. The tea was always in a little teapot which the nurse would pour for them. If they were unable to feed themselves the food would still be served whole and attractive, and the nurses would chop it, and feed it, at their bedside as you would for a sick child. Attention to detail was important. And I know from working in the kitchen's, the attention to detail was important. If Mrs Smith liked a soft boiled egg with toast fingers for breakfast, that's what she got. And if Mr brown liked his nurse to read the nurse to read the front page of the newspaper whilst she fed him his porridge, thats what he got. Everybody deserves something worth waking up for. What's more the cost of this care could be afforded on the old age pension. Nobody had to sell their homes, as private nursing homes were genuine small businesses without government funding. And each one stood on the quality of care provided.
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