We need to stop treating care workers like disposable labour
When care workers don’t have basic working rights those they care for suffer too
When care workers don’t have basic working rights those they care for suffer too
Reema Patel details why Britain needs to reform how we care for the elderly in the UK – but explains why it won’t be easy.
A new report on social isolation in care homes has been launched by the Relatives and Residents Association (R&RA). The findings show that at least 40,000 elderly people in care homes in England are living in social isolation and that as many as 13,000 are completely ‘without kith or kin’ and receive no letters, calls or visits at all.