Posted by By Susanne Delaney
FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS BUT NOT FOR ELDERLY? By Susanne Delaney Elderly Irish people who worked all their lives will pay up to €25 a week for their medicines to be put into blister packs. It has been proven many times our elderly are OVER medicated (Cui Bono?), but this move may endanger them, as the tablets they’re told to take won’t be categorised. Meanwhile, asylum seekers are given automatic medical cards (often retaining them when employed). Despite the government admitting most are economic shoppers coming from the UK (90%). The government attempted to hide this, and the Information Commissioner compelled them to release it. Elderly people in nursing homes often already give up to 80% of their pension and a % of certain other assets to be looked after by private profiteering companies who employ asylum seekers from migrant hotels who aren’t vetted (whom elderly often cannot understand due to poor English, and elderly people often having hearing issues or comprehension issues due to dementia, etc.). Basics are often not provided free, such as hygiene products. Unregulated care homes used by Tusla ALSO employ asylum seekers. One mother who contacted me about horrific unexplained injuries her daughter recieved in “care”, made the point that these injuries (as well as a shaved pubic area on her child) only occurred after Irish Staff were swapped out. Generally, many employees may well be nice, but training and vetting is a MUST when caring for vulnerable human beings, and the
Prime Time documentary showed that foreign staff have been filmed abusing our elderly in the most dehumanising ways (of course RTE never specified this, but we have eyes). Furthermore, we have elderly assisted with hygiene by those of the opposite sex. This is a clear safeguarding issue. A case like that involving Emmanuel Adeniji should never be allowed to happen again. But the government does not care. Look at further evidence: soon after it was implemented, a ban on appropriating nursing homes to turn them into profitable asylum centres (for young fit males) was lifted. Within the space of 6 months. A huge fanfare was made of putting it in place (Good PR for the government), and then as quietly as a pin dropping, the ban was gone. Dozens of nursing homes have been taken over. Elderly people are displaced into hospitals, far away from loved ones. Such placements hasten cognitive and physical decline. Health risks increase, and busy staff leave elderly nursing home patients in bed all day, devoid of company, mental stimulation, or physical exercise. Visiting hours are heavily restricted. Meanwhile, like with IPAS centres, Tusla Unregulated care homes and homeless hostels, care of the elderly has been COMMODIFIED. Vulnerable people equate to more opportunities to steal from the taxpayer. In the case of the elderly (who may have property assets), they are used to transfer taxpayers’ funds while also being robbed. During l○*kd○wn was the time to see how the government treat elderly people; their personal automony was taken (advanced age should not preclude you from freedom of choice). They were treated as prisoners and used to artificially pump up death figures in order to scare a nation into compliance. They were sent from hospitals to die alone (with a latex glove full of warm water to hold as a replacement for a human hand). They were given drugs that quickened death and were denied treatment. For the ones who didn’t die, the reality was 24/7 isolation in their final years. When I approached
(then the executive director of
Internayional Ireland, a human rights organisation), he said he supported the government’s decisions pertaining to the elderly (I have an audio recording). No doubt when the prosposed Dying With Dignity Bill is inevitably passed, human rights organisations will support their “right to die” too. But only when all their funds are safely in the coffers of this damned government.
Who Watches the Watchers? 