Hiqa ferma le ammissioni alla casa di cura Laois presenti nel programma “RTÉ Investigates” tra le preoccupazioni

Dreadfully tough watch, but a much needed wake-up call as, unfortunately, those situations are happening, and not just in the private sector.

Nurses and care attendants are by and large trustworthy, and many do fantastic work above and beyond, but anyone having to do the work of two or three people is doomed to failure.

The boards of management throughout the health sector will always automatically blame staffing shortages for this, but no one seems to be doing anything to fix it to any effect.

There’s never a shortage of managers,assistant managers, administration, and executives, but when you see footage like last night’s programme, it highlights how dire and desperate things are becoming.

Our Health Service is beyond dysfunctional & everyone claims it’s staffing.

Adding more people to a chaotic shit show will only make it worse.

The HSE should be disbanded & everyone apart from clinical staff fired

I’ve already said what I have to say regarding the programme in another post, however there is something I would like to say for those who have family members in nursing homes.

Part of how this issue is allowed to continue is because people do not visit their family members in nursing homes. I know for a fact because I visit my grandmother regularly, as does my mam and a couple of other family members (emphasis on couple, despite having a massive extended family). You can see the people who don’t get any visitors, maybe they were abusive, terrible parents, in that case yes it’s reasonable enough to not visit them.

However, I find it hard to believe that the many people I see with no visitors, in the three different nursing homes my grandmother was in through both respite and long-term care, were so cruel as to be left in a nursing home, maybe visited once in a blue moon, if ever.

The actual fact is that people are perfectly content to leave their family members in these places and close the door, they are too lazy and selfish to bother sparing two hours a week, or even every two weeks, to see them. This is pretty much all that would be required to get some idea as to the level of care their family members are receiving. This is not even touching on the level of visits someone who loved you, cared for you and supported you all your life, generally doing the best they could, should receive. I think many parents would fall in this category, abusive parents I do not include here.

And I know for a fact this is an issue, because I have spoken to many families (plus my own familial experience) where the caring and visiting is left to a single, or couple, of individuals run ragged.

I see the same people over and over visiting family members, and I can only assume that a bunch of random families now with a parent in a nursing home were not single child families, in a time when big families were the norm.

Visit your family members, *most* people can absolutely spare two hours a week, or every two weeks, to get this visit in.