Hi Folkes
Its been quite a tiring day for me and mum today we had a meeting for a review of granddads care home.
It was rely sad to see how ashamed the staff appeared to be regarding the home they worked for, I know how hard they work and the love that is provided but they have staff issues and documentation has gone, well out of the window.
The home has had so many different people putting different types of process in place that it has become a sorry mess and lack of information.
This has then caused failure in reporting incidents, care and clients needs.
I must reiterate the few staff there work very hard and I would never have a bad word stated against them.
The simple fact is screaming out wages for staff cost money and if you are running a business you want to keep the overheads down.
The home have a Trouble Shooter in and says that she is going to get all the residents details and needs up to date but how can that ever happen when as a business you just do not have the spare resource as the staff you have are fully streched.
I don't think it is all the fault of the home care company it is difficult to get staff of a suitable grade and then you need the right type of person.
But surly if a private company had a serious staff turnover they would try to identify possible cause.
I do genuinely feel that the caliber of the present staff is more than acceptable but there is still not enough there, whether it is the legal requirement that is wrong or simply staff off sick or transient.
The fact still remains our elderly are being short changed.
These homes are not cheap and profit has to be made.
Tonight the family have been costing up the average expenditure of an elderly person per week this including soap and shaving things deodorant etc.
Then you look at an elderly persons allowance in a home this is about £20 per week, I have yet to understand where this money is being spent.
No matter how we work out these figures we cannot see how this adds up to the amounts that are being stated available.
An elderly persons money is legally theirs so why should a private home care company make interest on it, It beggars belief.
Apparently the home now holds a clean bill of health from the CQC and if that is right I am ammazed and in shock as things we all discussed today are still unchanged No adequate care plans and only recent plans for staff recruitment and no visible home manager.
On the positive side the social worker is switched on to these issues and picked into the detail of missing inaccurate information and care provision, that is what I call looking at the environment in the clients best interests.
Maybe there is hope for Staffordshire Social Workers.
Is this going to end well, I just do not know but it is not looking promising.
If these issues are not resolved I can see the loss of a good caring group of staff and the upheaval of elderly people.
Why can these county councils not see what is clearly there, Care Homes and Nursing Care should be provided by not for profit organisations.
Bad Care Homes fail and with that leaves insufficient bed space this then backfires on hospital beds it is a vicious loop with the elderly messed about.
Steve
Its been quite a tiring day for me and mum today we had a meeting for a review of granddads care home.
It was rely sad to see how ashamed the staff appeared to be regarding the home they worked for, I know how hard they work and the love that is provided but they have staff issues and documentation has gone, well out of the window.
The home has had so many different people putting different types of process in place that it has become a sorry mess and lack of information.
This has then caused failure in reporting incidents, care and clients needs.
I must reiterate the few staff there work very hard and I would never have a bad word stated against them.
The simple fact is screaming out wages for staff cost money and if you are running a business you want to keep the overheads down.
The home have a Trouble Shooter in and says that she is going to get all the residents details and needs up to date but how can that ever happen when as a business you just do not have the spare resource as the staff you have are fully streched.
I don't think it is all the fault of the home care company it is difficult to get staff of a suitable grade and then you need the right type of person.
But surly if a private company had a serious staff turnover they would try to identify possible cause.
I do genuinely feel that the caliber of the present staff is more than acceptable but there is still not enough there, whether it is the legal requirement that is wrong or simply staff off sick or transient.
The fact still remains our elderly are being short changed.
These homes are not cheap and profit has to be made.
Tonight the family have been costing up the average expenditure of an elderly person per week this including soap and shaving things deodorant etc.
Then you look at an elderly persons allowance in a home this is about £20 per week, I have yet to understand where this money is being spent.
No matter how we work out these figures we cannot see how this adds up to the amounts that are being stated available.
An elderly persons money is legally theirs so why should a private home care company make interest on it, It beggars belief.
Apparently the home now holds a clean bill of health from the CQC and if that is right I am ammazed and in shock as things we all discussed today are still unchanged No adequate care plans and only recent plans for staff recruitment and no visible home manager.
On the positive side the social worker is switched on to these issues and picked into the detail of missing inaccurate information and care provision, that is what I call looking at the environment in the clients best interests.
Maybe there is hope for Staffordshire Social Workers.
Is this going to end well, I just do not know but it is not looking promising.
If these issues are not resolved I can see the loss of a good caring group of staff and the upheaval of elderly people.
Why can these county councils not see what is clearly there, Care Homes and Nursing Care should be provided by not for profit organisations.
Bad Care Homes fail and with that leaves insufficient bed space this then backfires on hospital beds it is a vicious loop with the elderly messed about.
Steve
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