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.
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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🫁）