Buzzin Disgrace

Yet another story hits the headlines of another poor old lady walking into a care home and ending up in hospital, a shadow of her former self.

Mrs Molly Darby, 94-years-old, was suffering from dementia and had become to weak to care for herself and so moved into The Beeches Residential Home, in Wath Upon Dearne, near Rotherham last year.

Mrs Darby walked into the care home unaided and in good physical health but within four weeks her condition had deteriorated to such an extent that she had to be carried out on a stretcher with a list of appalling ailments.  Her family said “she looked like a concentration camp victim”, and within three weeks she was dead.

When she was admitted to the hospital, she was found to be suffering from a chest infection, pneumonia, septicaemia, a urinary infection, an ear infection as well as pressure sores.

A damning investigation has now ruled that the great-grandmother died as a result of neglect.

Mrs Darby’s son took photographs of his mother close to death, as evidence of the neglect.  He said that when she arrived at the hospital her hair was so matted it was growing into the back of her neck and that her eyelashes were so congealed she was unable to open her eyes.  Her bed sores were so bad that one of the nurses had to walk away in tears.

Mr Darby had been unable to visit his mother at the care home for ten day due to illness.  He got a call from the care home to say his mother had been taken to hospital as she needed urgent medical attention.  He said that they were shocked when he arrived at the hospital to see her “she had gone downhill rapidly.  She was in a filthy, terrible state and it took quite a while for the nurses to clean her up”.

The Beeches Residential Home has been found to have been negligent by omission in its care of the pensioner after an investigation by Rotherham Council’s Social Service.  Plans are in place to improve care at the home and it will have regular council inspections.

So, THE BEECHES RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME is continuing to CARE for other vulnerable elderly folk, unbelievable.  Why are regular council inspections not already being done in these places?  Every week there is another story of another care home literally killing these frail old people and unless they are shut down and the people involved punished it will continue, do our pensioners not deserve some dignity in their old age!!!!!