Originally Posted by
Grist_To_The_Mill
Care Home = A business
Probably most have a break even point of 80% occupancy, below that they are going bust.
The NHS prepared the ground for a major influx of focused patients including building temporary hospitals. It made sense to try to get empty beds.
Unfortunately apart from a lack of testing the elderly patients got sent to private care homes where the management staff hadn't invested in enough PPE, isolation measures and trained staff. Even though it was their responsibility to do so.
I have an elderly relative in a care home where three of the regular carers can't speak English, which is actually an improvement on the one she was in before that which seemed to have a motto of " do it on the cheap"
Easy to blame Boris and co but essentially Care Homes are factories where the patients are raw materials