The commission, set up last summer by Age UK, the NHS Confederation, and the Local Government Association (LGA), warned that the care of older people living in the UK needed fundamental change.
Issuing a call to end the “persistent failings” in the current health and social care system, it also urged “patronizing language” to old people to be banned.
The commission’s report also said “fundamental changes to culture, leadership, management, staff development, clinical practice and service delivery” is required in order to prevent “undignified and degrading” care.
Calling for the coalition government to amend its Health and Social Care Bill, the head of the Royal College of Nursing Peter Carter said that the lack of training that healthcare assistants went through was “wholly unacceptable”.
Furthermore, speaking to the BBC’s Today Programme, the co-chair of the commission Sir Keith Pearson insisted that the NHS needed “root and branch” reforms to change attitudes towards the elderly.
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