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In reply to the discussion: Castro Valley: Janitor saw elderly become weak [View all]wordpix
(18,652 posts)WTF? People should go to jail over this and NOT the janitor, who's a hero in my book. Sure, he should not have dispensed meds but obviously he was overwhelmed and trying to do his best.
The owner and manager of this facility should be in jail. I have sympathy for the unpaid workers who left in that they weren't paid for 2 weeks and got fed up, but they should not have left the patients. That is unacceptable. These dementia patients are like children and some, like my mother, have returned to baby-like states and can do nothing for themselves. Would you leave 19 babies and young children alone, even if you weren't paid? I wouldn't. I would be taking care of them but calling for help until I was blue in the face. I would deal with the owner of the facility and my pay later.
And the families of those patients should be ashamed of themselves. This facility had lots of problems leading up to the closure but either they didn't care to visit or didn't care, period. You can tell a decent facility by things like smell, cleanliness, food that's served and appearance of patients. If something is awry, you need to act. There was a lot wrong with this place but the poor elderly were just dumped there as someone else's problem.
Then there was dereliction of duty on the part of the state. Nuff said. Heads should roll.
Bad, bad, bad all around.