Saturday, November 14, 2009

Elderly Abuse


I was chatting to a co worker and she was telling me about the problems her family was having in regards to her father getting Dialyses at the hospital.
All I can say is Elderly Abuse, he fell in the hospital. The called his over 80 yr old wife telling her she needs to take him to Emergency, she explained he is in the Hospital and I am unable to take him. Then he needed to catch to transit that was waiting to pick him up, he was finished Dialyses in a wheel chair, when he asked a nurse to take him down stairs she told him he was a trouble maker, he cryed.
This is a true story, I am ashamed and very angry about this. How can anyone treat an Elder in this way. Something needs to be done and things need to change.