The decline of society

Sometimes society is so cruel that it makes you ashamed to be a human being. 

The Equality and Human Right Commission has revealed a sad portrait of Council-founded homecare across the UK. The report Commission’s report, “Close to Home”, claims the “systematic failure”  in  the services of the employed carers.

According to the  inquiry, around half of the 1.254 elderly people, friends and family members are not satisfied with care at home.

Shocking stories of old people being robbed by the people employed to look after them, or being left, unwashed and with no food made.

The care services offered from the Council is supposed to offer slot of hours of personal help, but the people paid are not doing their job properly. They are charged for less care, negligent and incompetent work.

The report points out around 500.000 people receiving care at home are insulted and many suffer from physical and financial abuse.


 Some cases are really unpleasant and an outrage to human dignity.

"Most of the girls [from the agency] were nasty. They were rough. Rather than say 'Sit in the chair', they'd push me back into the chair, that sort of thing, and I didn't like that.
"I couldn't do anything about it. I can't even walk and I think they know this, you see. They know you're vulnerable" told the commission a 78-year-old woman who leave alone. 

Another woman pleaded for help  and was ignored by her carer.
"I had a lady who was on the toilet when the carer came. She shouted 'I'm stuck, I need some help'. The carer shouted up: 'Can't do that, but I've made you a butty and I'm going now.'"

Many Elderly are reluctant to complain because they are afraid to get less care and just accept the situation.

However it is not fair. It is ethically and morally unacceptable.

Everyone knows that the number of old people is increasing year by year because the better conditions in life, improvements in medicinals and health treatments.
The problem now is how to manage the Elderly people.

Some of them are placed in residencial care homes where they have fix time for family and friends visits. These places can be nice with lots of activities and social programmes, involving music, cinema and arts. Most of them are unhappy and quite depressing places where the patients feel more alone and close to die soon.

They would like to stay with their family, with someone that can give them love.

However in many cases the people can' t manage the care of elderly people in his home,  they have their family, children, work and no time to look after a grandhmother or grandfather.
The Elderly need a big help for everything.
Someone told when you becomes old you are like a child. And it's true.
The old people do need  real support in basic need like washing, eating, taking medicinals, and company to speak with and don't feel alone.
They love need to feel loved.

My grandmother  enjoyed  telling stories maybe to me and my sister. She liked singing stupid song she had made about his husband and she used to repeat the same things many times, complaining about his husband.

"I bought the farm...  your grandfather didn't realise how much important I was... I usually woke up every single morning at 4 am. to look after the pigs and the pregnant cows. He was still sleeping..."


But she was happy to do that.
You can see in her eyes.

Now she is dead and I miss her so much.

Others consider the Old as a problem and just want to address them to someone else. It happen fights between sons about who has to take the duty to look after the parents. 


But they still are the parents and they need to be protected and assisted, as they did in the past for the children.

Everyone have to think about this.