This is summary of two articles describing neglect of residents at a residential home in Northampton. One is from Daily Mail (6.10.2010)” ‘Severe neglect’ of staff blamed for appalling deaths of five elderly care home residents in just two weeks” and the other one is from The Guardian(6.10.2010) “Elderly care home residents died after suffering ‘severe neglect’ “ . Both articles describe preventable deaths of residents in a private nursing home, Parkside House between July 22 and August 6, 2009. The home was originally set up to provide for people over 65 suffering from dementia or long-standing mental illness. But the management decided to admit residents with higher level of dependency and additional needs and ‘simply could not cope’.
This book tells the whole story of mental healthcare from the patient to the family affected by it, how the illness destroyed Sylvia Frumkin’s life and how she dealt with it, how the system did and didn’t help her, and how she persevered. Sylvia provided the book’s title. She was a student at New York’s High School of Music and Art when she had her first psychotic break. At 16, in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, she asked her mother “Is there no place on earth for me?” It’s a question she asked again and again over the years and by the book’s end, this question haunts me as well. Should patients be locked up in a mental institution or among our communities?
* Baby P failed by police, social workers and lawyers * Toddler had 60 visits from agencies over 8 months * 'Horrifying death' could have been prevented * Authorities didn't realise violent partner lived there The horrific extent to which Baby P was failed by nearly everyone who came into contact with him was laid bare yesterday. Social workers, doctors and police committed a catalogue of errors which led to the toddler’s death at the hands of his mother and her sadistic boyfriend. The full report into how the toddler died disclosed how Baby Peter’s mother, Tracey Connelly, told the authorities she had a boyfriend – but they did not ask who he was or insist on meeting him. She even named Steven Barker – who later battered Peter
204 Task B Example 1 On May 31 2011, BBC 1’s programme Panorama aired ‘Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed’. The programme showed undercover film of staff at Winterbourne View, a private hospital near Bristol, abusing adults with severe learning disabilities. A reporter for Panorama, Joe Casey, had spent five weeks secretly filming whilst working undercover and said it was “the hardest thing” he had done. Panorama had initially been alerted to the story by Terry Bryan, a former nurse at the hospital who had had serious concerns. On June 1 2011, four people were arrested and the hospital owners, Castlebeck, suspended 13 employees.
Nancy's family was compromised the first night that Nancy was brought into the emergency room, they were afraid and rushed to make decisions that they weren't ready to make. The shock of what happened had not processed yet, and they ultimately didn't realize that on January 11th ,1983 - “they had lost Nancy”, as her sister put it on the Frontline documentary. From a deontologist perspective, Nancy's autonomy was over looked for a very long time, she was basically just 'kept alive' and had no self awareness whatsoever. Ultimately I do not agree with the courts decision, I believe that the Cruzan's made the right decision for their daughter. My position would not change whether the discovery of MCS was founded or not – simply because all of their options had been attempted in correlation to the beneficence of Nancy.
History of Concern or Need Client states that a little over a year ago her husband passed away, and since that time she has had a difficult time maintaining the bills on just her income. Client states that she is behind on mortgage. Client also reports that the family was without electric for a week until she received her paycheck. I observed that there is very little food in home. When asked if client attempted to receive help from any community agency, Client reports that she was unaware that she could receive help and that she thought food stamps were for people who did not work.
Of course, she withdrew her notice. Fear of Flying Simon was extremely distressed by flying and had cancelled previous flights at the last moment because he felt unable to get on the plane. Not only that, he found it difficult to be a passenger in a car. Things had come to a head when he had booked and paid for a 3-month holiday to America. After 6 sessions, his anxiety had almost gone.
After the study had concluded the subjects were de-briefed and told the true nature of the experiment. They met with the learner so they could see he was fine and had come to no harm however this did not take into account the psychological stress caused during the experiment when they had been led to believe they had killed someone by giving them 450 volt shock. During the study Milgram did take into account some ethnical implications, however by deceiving and encouraging the participants to continue despite the consequences was not ethical and the study should not have been allowed to continue. He was unable to determine the mental state of the participants as the information given at the start of the study by the
Part I A. Two specific personal experiences that might have turned out differently had the events and issues of the 60’s never occurred would be: My father was diagnosed with a lung disease when I was very young. The disease continued to progress until my father was no longer able to work outside of the home. He took any odd jobs he could do that did not require any physical work but it was not enough to support our family. Since he was unable to work, he was not able to provide medical insurance for himself or his wife and children.
Failures in Healthcare can happen for numerous reasons as in the newspaper article from the mail online “’Severe neglect’” of staff blamed for appalling deaths of five elderly care home residents in just two weeks states that Parkside House care home in Northampton was mainly set up for people aged 65 and over who were suffering and from Dementia or a long standing mental illness but was unable to manage to deal with residents who had additional needs. This failure happened because the staff may not have received basic training that would enable them to provide the residents with the basic care that they needed. It also states that some of the residents had developed severe pressure sores, Pressure sores can be caused when a person is left in the same position in bed for so long and not being turned over at regular intervals, the residents had developed severe pressure sores because the staff at the home had not used the specialist mattresses correctly.