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Care home workers poor English

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OldFrill Tue 05-Dec-23 11:00:39

silverlining48

That’s shocking. She was the only resident and it was her first day. How dreadful for her and her family. My was mum in a Home where none of the staff had fluent English, it did cause a few problems but they were very kind,
The problem is carers pay is low, they are not valued as much as they should be which means no one wants to do the work.
Suppose the other problem is (the lucky (?) ones ) live too long.

She was the only resident with a room on the first floor. She wasn't the only resident in the home.

silverlining48 Tue 05-Dec-23 10:57:20

That’s shocking. She was the only resident and it was her first day. How dreadful for her and her family. My was mum in a Home where none of the staff had fluent English, it did cause a few problems but they were very kind,
The problem is carers pay is low, they are not valued as much as they should be which means no one wants to do the work.
Suppose the other problem is (the lucky (?) ones ) live too long.

Germanshepherdsmum Tue 05-Dec-23 10:48:10

It’s appalling. It’s not just that these workers didn’t qualify for visas, how on earth did they pass an interview with the care home which decided to employ them and to leave them in sole charge?

Primrose53 Tue 05-Dec-23 10:32:19

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12822429/Dementia-sufferer-91-died-trapped-stairlift-foreign-care-staff-not-understand-difference-breathing-bleeding-meaning-ambulance-not-triage-correctly.html

I thought this was shocking! Indian and Romanian careworkers could not understand the difference between basic English words like ā€œawareā€ and ā€œalertā€ and ā€œbreathingā€ and ā€œbleedingā€. This has got to change.

Poor lady, what a way to end your days. 😢