Posted on 12/07/2023 2:22:41 PM PST by River Hawk
If you are elderly or disabled, would you feel safe having caregivers with inadequate English-language skills?
The recent death of Barbara Rymell in England, as reported in The Telegraph, shows us the danger of bringing in foreign caregivers and medical personnel with inadequate English skills.
Against the residential home’s own policy, Barbara was left alone on a stairlift for five minutes. She got off the machine and attempted to walk up the staircase, but she fell back downwards, getting her head caught under the stairlift chair.
This predicament was bad enough, but it wasn’t helped by the inadequate English skills of her caregivers, who called 999 (British equivalent of 911) but couldn’t communicate effectively.
The Telegraph explains the problem: “In a 999 call, her two carers [caregivers], who were Romanian and Indian, were unable to explain to the emergency services what had happened to her and did not understand the difference between the patient being ‘alive’ and ‘alert,' or ‘breathing’ and ‘bleeding'...Following the call, her [Barbara’s] case was classified as ‘serious’ rather than requiring an ‘immediate’ response, and when paramedics arrived at the care home she had died.”
Dumping our senior citizens into the care of people who can’t speak enough English to distinguish “alive” and “alert” is an outrage.
If we lack caregivers, let’s train our own people to do the job, at a good salary.
That’s better than importing foreigners who can’t speak enough English to make a proper emergency call.
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I saw that in the news. Horrible way to die!
I can’t even hardly check our through the drive thru with a code
“would you feel safe having caregivers with inadequate English-language skills?”
Racist.
Every try to talk to Amazon customer service??
We are seniors. My wife is an invalid (end-stage COPD). I take care of her, and always will. I promised her as long as I had a breath in my body, I would take care of her, and she would not go into a home; or even have some “aide” who cares not a damn about her come to our home to assist her. I guess I’m just old school.
God bless you.
I just did, last week. I'm pretty deaf, so even when they're (allegedly) speaking English I can't understand. Now transpose that to a situation that I might be in a short few years from now.
Thank you. I welcome His help.
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