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The care of our elderly

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

As yet another case hits the headlines of the mistreatment of elderly residents in care homes, do you believe that recruitment of care assistants should be further regulated.

There are many care providers who will recruit care assistants with no formal qualifications, little access to quality training and paid a low wage.

On looking through jobs recently with my son who was looking for a part time job whilst studying, there were so many care assistant roles in elderly care homes, no qualifications required, paying minimum wage. Without being disrespectful to those who genuinely enjoy working in a caring role, I am sure that some people will take on these roles with little understanding of the responsibilities involved and think of it as 'just a job to earn a bit of cash'.

Is the problem down to lack of training or are care providers not recruiting the best employees. Should staff in care homes undergo tighter regulations or do you feel the media blow this out of proportion.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

for some, people are disposable items and they just don't care.

and in some cases, the company cares more about the bottom line

so very, very sad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My personal opinion is care work should be qualified work but qualified work requires qualified pay and care homes don't want to pay that so employ people who are willing work for NMW and sadly that usually mean people who just see it as a job

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By *hocksandmissusCouple
over a year ago

Chester-ish

the problem I see with care homes these day is not to do with the staff but those that own them and making sure there profits are nice and fat for them.

having a friend whos mother has just died in a care home the only thing the home was concerned about was being paid for the rest of the month as that room would now be empty got to love our care system xxxxxxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

as a support worker in the community I totally agree regarding more regulations when taking on people for such roles. I have seen first hand where someone has come into the office, asked to sit down, fill in a form and then asked when they could start !! Some of the young people and not all my I stress that go into this type of work have no idea what the job entails. The things that we cover in our area are along the same lines as a district nurse, apart from injections, which in some cases needs far more training than is ever provided. The main problem from all this is caused mainly by the lack of care homes, which then means social services have to make do with the private care companies who mainly are only after one thing and that is the money. Whilst working for a different company yrs ago I was taken ill in the run up to Christmas, after one day off work I explained to my manager I didn't think I should be calling in on elderly people as the illness could well have put many in hospital if they had caught it from me, her reply was............. I want you to go back to work as hopefully it may kill a few off before Christmas for us, so less to look after. !!!! Hence I reported her to head office and I resigned, she still works in that job today !!! Disgraceful? I think so on a massive scale !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you create a private industry to look after our aging population.

Then it has but one goal PROFIT !!!!!

Emotions are always bad for business,so keep overheads as low as possible (NMW)

and turnover as many heads as you can.

Its called private enterprise and is coming to health service near you, in the not to distant future.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Due to the large amounts of ex council run care homes its all become all about profits thats not to say all councils ran them always as good as could be but at least more onus on the people not money.

Not all private care homes are run to detriment of the people in care.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Every care employer i've worked for the mandatory training levels have been really high. I did NVQ training and am about to start another QCF diploma (as NVQs are no longer available)

I believe CQC have to make sure that a set percentage of the work force have to have training to those levels. So you couldnt run a shift with no one being 'green' to the job.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lets not forget yhat it wasnt that long sgo everyone was just put into indtitutions..

also family loyalty is dying.. its now such hardship for many to take care of an elderly relative..

i see so many elders whose family would rather be down the pub or something and others whose families are always there doing everything

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