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"Panorama's horrifying exposé of the abuse of older people in care homes shows the value of good staff and managers"
"Footage of an Alzheimer's sufferer being repeatedly beaten by a member of staff at a care home will be screened tonight."
"Clips show 80-year-old woman being beaten by a male staff member at a north London care home"
To all appearances, it was an ordinary digital alarm clock. Except that it wasn’t.
It was a high-resolution, 30-frame remote video surveillance clock purchased for £20 on eBay, and I had bought it for one specific purpose: to record 24 hours in the life of my elderly mother at her North London care home.
The Care Quality Commission is being criticised for failing to take sufficient action after undercover filming showed an 80-year-old woman being slapped by a care worker.
A MERSEYSIDE care home was at the centre of a police probe today following allegations dementia sufferers were mistreated. Four members of staff at Windy Knowe Nursing Home were arrested last week on suspicion of “wilful neglect”.
The Oxton home specialises in caring for elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease.
in list: Liverpool Echo 02/09
Charities are calling for new laws to protect the elderly as a study shows that more than 300,000 cases of abuse go undetected each year.
More than half of those looking after a relative with dementia told researchers that they had mistreated them.
The University College London research revealed that a third admitted "significant abuse".
Verbal abuse or threats were common, but just three of the 220 people questioned in the British Medical Journal study admitted physical abuse.
Thousands of nurses banned from working following accusations that they harmed vulnerable adults are poised to win compensation worth millions of pounds after the law lords ruled yesterday that they were unfairly treated.\n\nSome nurses lost their homes as well as their livelihoods after being blacklisted while awaiting investigation of accusations based on the flimsiest evidence.
Thousands of elderly people are looked after in homes, but for a few what should be a place of care sometimes becomes a place of abuse.
Often it goes unnoticed and unreported and so a helpline has been set up for residents or their relatives, to report cases of neglect.
A hospital nurse is being questioned by police after her elderly parents were found battered to death in their home.
A LIVERPOOL nurse who went undercover for a television exposé at a hospital could be struck off.
Margaret Haywood, 58, is facing a four-day disciplinary hearing in London at the Nursing and Midwifery Council to decide her career.
The Everton woman has come under fire after she took part in a BBC Panorama show three years ago.
A nurse who exposed appalling neglect of the elderly at an NHS hospital began a fight to save her career today.
Margaret Haywood, 58, faces a series of disciplinary charges over a secret film she made for a BBC Panorama programme.
Pensioners are less protected against abuse than pets, campaigners have warned as they urge the Government to introduce new laws to protect vulnerable older people.
Five vulnerable old people were "inappropriately" restrained by staff at a north-west London hospital, an inquiry has found.
The investigation by Harrow Primary Care Trust (PCT) found nursing staff at Northwick Park Hospital tied up five patients in Fletcher Ward last year.
LIVERPOOL University has teamed up with Halton Council to carry out groundbreaking research into the protection of vulnerable adults.
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults in Halton project looks at the investigation process which takes place following an allegation of abuse, from the viewpoint of both service users and carers.
HALTON has the highest number of alleged cases of elderly abuse referred to social services than any other North West borough.
It also has one of the highest overall rates in the country.
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