The report’s findings, based on a survey of nearly 1,000 people and diaries kept by the elderly, showed that the UK’s care system needs urgent reforms.
Warning that too many elderly people faced a “constant battle” to just get the basic care, the consumer group also found cases of missed visits and people being left in soiled beds during its investigation.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said, “The government can no longer claim to be shocked as report after report highlights the pitiful state of care for older people.”
Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director General of Age UK also warned that the UK care system was putting the “health and dignity of older people at risk.”
Demanding the British government takes action before things get worse, Unison’s head of local government Heather Wakefield said, “The coalition government has inflicted drastic cuts on local authorities with the result that elderly people are suffering. Cash-strapped councils are selling off 15-minute care slots to the lowest bidder.”
Furthermore, slamming Britain’s failure to care for the most vulnerable people, Councillor David Rogers, of the Local Government Association, added, “This research highlights the very real crisis this country is facing in providing care for the elderly and vulnerable.”
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