[Margaret Pilkington]

No I don't misunderstand what you are saying at all. I get your point and I agree with it.

You cannot put compassion into someone if it isn't there already...I don't believe that 'caring' can be taught. You either care or you don't.
These people who committed the vile acts against the residents in their care did not need supervising...they did not need to be told that what they were doing was wrong - they knew it was wrong.
Had any of them been asked if they would like an elderly relative of their own to be treated in such a fashion, do you think they would have said 'Yes'?
I believe that society is much to blame for portraying the elderly as a drain on resources.

Those who are in need of care right now are the ones that made this country....their work and their sacrifices are now considered negligible - even though most of these who are in care pay large sums of money for the care they receive.(often having had to sell their homes to pay for such care)
They could go and live in a hotel for less money and get better looked after.

After an incident like this there is always some kind of investigation...and the words 'Lessons will be learned' are trotted out again and again....but lessons are not learned and incidents are repeated.

The elderly are seen as disposable, of very little value.
So unless society changes its view of this group of people these things will continue.

And that is why I look after my own mother and will continue to do so for as long as I am able. I do not trust anyone to look after her in the way that I can.