So Called "care Workers"

[mrs_overall]

My 93 year old aunt was sent home from hospital earlier this week. She has advanced cancer and it is only a matter of time. A care package was hastily cobbled together. On Friday a carer came to make her lunch and tea. Lunch was a cottage pie that needed heating in the microwave and my aunt asked the woman to make her a boiled ham & Branston pickle sarnie for tea.
Both meals were inedible - lunch was cottage pie with a full jar of Branston dumped on top of it. Tea was a raw bacon sarnie!

[ummmm]

When my gramps had carers in twice a day they heated the food that we had prepared.

[rockyracoon]

I don't know why these people bother with care jobs, they obviously don't. When my mum worked for social services she said some of the agency workers were shocking.

[China Doll]

That's not good, you should make a complaint to the agency she/he comes from.

Not all care workers are like that but sadly it's the bad ones that always get the attention.

[tiggerblue10]

Can you make a complaint?

[mrs_overall]

My aunt has a freezer full of meals she cooked herself - the care worker only needs to heat them.
I was gobsmacked one could not tell the difference between boiled ham and raw bacon

[ummmm]

Just because someone seems to have little knowledge of food doesn't mean they don't care.

[mrs_overall]

I'm trying to get my bone idle cousin (her daughter) onto it

[Gavmacp]

Oh! You have touched a sore point here!
I am a nurse working in learning disabilities. Some of the carers are appalling. I always go by the thought 'would I want them looking after my mother' and probably 2/3 I would have to say No!

[gness]

If it comes to it I hope my care package includes someone with basic food knowledge.

[mrs_overall]

It is the bad ones that give the good ones a bad name.

Although my aunt is 93 she is as sharp as a tack and said the carer was "simple"

[mrs_overall]

gness, your carer may not have basic food skills but he know his way around a bar lol

[ummmm]

When it comes to it I hope my family pull their weight.

[gness]

MrsO......He does indeed....and his training is coming along nicely too. Perhaps a summer school cookery course? ;-) x

[China Doll]

'It is the bad ones that give the good ones a bad name.'

^^^ I agree and it's the same for many professions. Just don't let this one person tarnish your view of all of them, most of them do care and also do a job that I wouldn't even consider for not great money. Two members of my close family are carers, they'd not be very impressed with your aunts experience of this carer. That's why a complaint should be made, either the carer needs some basic cookery lessons or the whole matter needs investigating properly to make sure the carer is cutting corners in other peoples homes.

I used to manage a carers in the community thing along time a go specifically for elderly who just come out of hospital and needed help. I would have expected to be told about any incident like this.

[mrs_overall]

In fairness, all the other carers she has had this week have been superb - kind and caring.

[anneasquith]

contact mcmillan nurses, a more suitable/enhanced care package may be available.

[mrs_overall]

I am not shirking duty, but my lazy good for nothing cousin is next of kin & should sort it, plus I am 100 miles away

[ummmm]

I wasn't for a second suggesting you were.

[Dee Sa]

The old dedicated carer who would go that extra mile for the clients has retired and in their place are carers with no compassion whatsoever, they have no idea what english meals look like or taste like nor do they care, they just do the minimum for the maximum wage they can get.
A few years back one asked m step mum to borrow £100 when she was politely refused she did not bother to show up next day or bother to show up anymore nor did she tell her agency to send someone else.

[woofgang]

my Mum died 3 years ago. she lived in Wandsworth in London. One and all, her carers of all nationalities were lovely people. The key bit to this was that the managers of the careteams were themselves lovely caring people.