Young and elderly people are easily intimidated and cruely treated.There ought be no place in human society for these abusers . Having spent nearly four months in hospital myself i saw my share of unthinking and/or deliberate mistreatment of older patiets.These abuses ranged from nurses refusing to get a glass of water for a very old man dying of cancer "BECAUSE IT WAS NOT MY JOB;ASK A NURSES AID"to more qualified professionals swanning through corridors and wards like battleships in a duck pond causing seriously impared patients to cower along the walls to allow these shits proceed on their imperious passages.Not to mention other professionals disappearing to go to parties leaving seriously ill patients lying in distress and compromising their medical outcomes adversely.
Thankfully these abuses were balanced by the natural kindnesses of the majority of other staff. I formed the view that there ought to be visiting committes ,the members of which should be drawn from ordinary sports clubs with a mandate to visit the instutions at any time day or night ,without advanced warning ,to do spot checks. I went to schools where some frustrated lay teachers beat the shite out of small children without cause and the other teachers knew full well what was going on and did feck all to stop it.In my view these latter were just as guilty as those who did the beating. So in my scheme of inspecting no one with medical relations would be allowed on the committee.In fact I might makr it mandatory to have it populated by parents of large families who had elderly relatives and small kids living with them.
Do not think that either unthinking /malicious treatment of small kids is non existent at present.It is not,evem for young and impressiona ble kids.I have reports of a young child in respect of whom the parents paid a fee to have the child tutored in sport ,being subject to jeering by the other kids at the behest of the tutor because the child was not up to scratch at the set tasks. That this should happen in this day and age is unbelieveable.I believe the child that it did.
On the other end of the age scale I know of an elderly person ,totally loved at home and fierce well minded who was reluctantly left in a nursing home of some distinction to enable the minders to get a break. This disabled person ,who was totally continent was against the will wrapped in nappies ,despite protestations ,on the first night there and had the mobile phone and drinking vessel seized as punishment.
The loving relatives went to see the person the next day to check up , were horrified and reared up. Result.The attendant involved got the boot and was moved on.
Just what checking was done on this bully be fore he was let near any patient is the unanswered question.
The patient involved spent a further period in the home but came home a beaten and dispirited human being.I t took the family about a month to restore to the pre nursing home condition.
I often pray to my Auntie Molly ,my mother's unmarried sister.Right into her own old age she minded her ailing parents and a dying brother at home in a house without running wateror an indor toilet in the case of her parents.They were always spic and span ,clean and well fed and happy.They were regularly visited by Doctor Dorgan their G.P.and a Priest .If you can die happy they did for sure. And Molly had nothing but a bucket to dispose of the human waste.
I'D SAY SHE IS IN HEAVEN FOR SURE.
