La donna autistica è morta dopo aver ignorato il piano di cure

“However, care staff reported she was “unable to relax, struggling with normal activities and unable to sit for more than a minute before feeling the need to get up and touch objects and items” and the medication was increased again.”

Sounds like some normal or to br expected behaviours from someone who is non-verbal, autistic.

Seems like the staff should have been better trained in ASD, full-stop. If she desires to “touch objects and items” or jump and move around, let her.

Unfortunately, the failure in her care is two-way. The staff member should have asserted that they need to see a care plan before accepting her care. The hospital should have asserted that all staff members need to see a care plan before working with patients.

The only good from this sad story is that the hospital had permanently closed.

As someone who works in a care home and witnesses what goes on on a daily basis; please just put me out to pasture and shoot me when I’m ill. Please don’t put me in one of those filthy places. The staff are there to collect a paycheck, do the bare minimum, and go home. Their intentions aren’t altruistic and to help others; it’s to do what’s necessary so as to not be fired but to make it as easy as possible for themselves. “Care home” is a hilarious oxymoron considering it’s the least compassionate and empathetic place you could ever work; for the residents AND the staff members. And with mounting pressure, staff shortages, responsibilities being stretched meaning an increased workload; of course people are going to make it easy on themselves because what choice do they have? Declining standards of care is only a byproduct of the times we are living in. So long as times continue to get worse; so too will the standard of care you receive. And if things will never get better in my lifetime, I don’t want to be old enough to find out how far standards can fall.

The speech and language therapy team involved in this carry a fair bit of the responsibility. I haven’t read anything outside of this article but it looks like this person wasn’t reviewed since the original eating plan was written. I can easily see how a plan from that long ago was overlooked.

So the information wasn’t readily available to the staff on the ground- sounds like they needed a board in the kitchen with all patient dietary information available in one place. Diabetes, thickened fluids, halal, soft food etc.

As for the medication issue, the question is was her behaviour when on low meds affecting other patients? Was she jumping on other patients, grabbing items out of their hands, getting into fights with other patients?