UK care home employed 80-year-old nurse who was not able to help lift residents
One of Britain’s biggest care home companies employed an 80-year-old senior nurse in a short-staffed care home who was older than some residents and not strong enough to help lift them. HC-One employed the octogenarian
at Tower Bridge Care Centre, which was found by inspectors to be “inadequate
” and “not safe”, in a case that highlights a chronic
shortage of care workers across the UK. The woman’s role emerged when she failed to call 999 as required after an 83-year-old resident with dementia, Josephine Coggins, suffered an unexplained head injury, which later resulted in admission
to hospital where she later died with pneumonia
.
tips
octogenarian:80-90岁的人(octo 八,gen- = ten times,十倍,-arian 人)
quadragenarian:40-49,四十多岁的人
nonagenarian:九十多岁的人(nona- = nine,九)
sexagenarian:六十多岁的人(sexa- = six,六)
inadequate:不充分的(adequate 适当的,足够的)
chronic:慢性的;长期的(chron- = time,时间)
admission:准入(admit 允许;承认)
pneumonia:肺炎(pneumon- = lung,肺🫁)