Often ready to have a good rant, and then encouraged by friends, I have now set up onebigrant You may wish to join me there?! Karen will be a guest author or responder if I can ever work how to set that up. Eliza, you might be able to help me, as I know you have the wonderful Katie as an author on your blog?
The other thing of interest is this article Young people in nursing homes denied basic human rights. Thanks Sally for leading me to The Conversation recently. I am very pleased to read others are talking about the human rights of younger people in nursing homes, but have been thinking and writing about this for all residents of aged care, not just younger people. I wrote a couple of blogs earlier this year about the rights of the all age groups in nursing homes, The human cattle yards for dementia and aged care, and Locked in prison and am thrilled others are joining this conversation.
On another note, I desperately need help on how to set up a blog roll on this site. I’ve been requiring more assistance with things that once were easy and automatic to achieve. When I activate the Blogroll widget, it comes up with websites I haven’t added in myself, and I don’t know how to edit it, remove the ones I don’t want, and add in the ones I do want… ANYONE out there who can help, please?????
Hi Kate (and Paul) – There is a very hopeful reply to that same article now by Pam Rolley – it outlines how the sorts of outcomes necessary for dignified treatment of ALL those needing care can be achieved, and indeed are being achieved in some places. Go check it out.
As for your blogroll: try going to your dashboard, then “appearance” on the left hand side, then “widgets”. Drag the things you want (eg links) to the sidebar on the right.
Then, if you want to add or remove links, go back to “dashboard”, then click on “links” and add or remove them at will. Hope that helps.
xx
Sally.
https://theconversation.edu.au/young-people-in-nursing-homes-denied-basic-human-rights-8176
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Thanks Sally… and I have managed to set up the Blogroll, thanks to your very simple instructions. I’ve been trying to do this for some months now, with no success, so feel very grateful for your help. xox
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Brilliant, I am so glad.x
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Thanks for this Kate, you’re right to expand the conversation to rights of nursing home residents in general rather than simply younger people in such care.
When arguing a rights agenda we need to be very clear about what rights, indeed, are. They are, essentially, the application of a common understanding of the inherent dignity of the human person. As such, they are universal – that is; must apply to everyone and must not, in their application, infringe nor diminish the human rights of any other person or group of persons.
For example (in extremis, I’ll admit) just because, prior to entering a nursing home, a person was used to going to the football every Saturday doesn’t mean that he/she can continue to do so once in care. Yes, they have a right to self-determination and choice, but that choice is now limited by a number of reasonable factors.
What concerns me the greatest about nursing home care, from recent experience, is that the system really does not allow for individualized care. I’m not talking in the particular here (although there may be examples) but more by the fact that staffing levels seem only to allow for a rudimentary level of care which does not give staff much time (or as much as they should have) to spend time with the individual exploring how, in their limiting circumstances, they might still exercise whatever self-determining choices they can (so as to maintain their dignity).
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