How Safe Are Care Homes
 

You would think that care homes for the elderly would be a safe place to retire to. But all was not well at one such place as far back as 1961.Read on.


Harry Meadows - Pensioner and accidental killer.
In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere home for the elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe.:eek:
The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, the then 81 year old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, had conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and the treatment for shock of five other residents.:eek:
The home was forced to shut as a result of these two incidents.:eek:


Taken from(Brewers book of Rogues Villains & Eccentrics)



Must get a copy soon.:hehetable

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My late father was wrenched out of my hands in the last year or so of his life by a care home where he went on daily care while i was at work.... My father couldn't speak so communicating with him was very difficult. The care home placed him in the day room every day surrounded by women which was his worst nightmare... having to listen to women wittering and and moaning all day! He used to complain about sitting on a bus listening to them on the way back from town... he was a character. Anyway i digress, he got so annoyed by the staff not undersatnding that he needed some peace and quiet that he picked up a pillow and stuffed it over the face of one lady that was moaning quite loudly (not her fault.... old age does horrible things to the mind). Good job the staff caught him in time!! It was christmas eve of all days and i was dragged to the care home to reprimand my father. When the incident was investigated the care home were reprimanded for not managing the atmosphere!!
Anyway i suppose this just goes to show what happens with the oldies when your back is turned!!!