Pots and Pans

This is a new one on me!  home helps feel 'abused' if they have to wash the pots and pans...yep. The Home help organiser said to me yesterday "some people abuse the Home Help service...they leave all the pots and pans for the home help to clean".

the Home help service was once a really good service. When they employed CLEANERS. They would clean, yes clean when you could not. Now however they have become 'tidy-uppers' because under health and safety rules they cannot lift anything e.g. a chair, push a sofa, or clean behind a cupboard.

hence what you really get is a dust.

now they want Home Helps to be 'carers' , not cleaners because you know CLEANING, real CLEANING is so humiliating a job. So in Ireland the services are going to be only for those needing help to get dressed, bathed, and a meal cooked.

You can live in squalor but they'll get you out of bed sort of thing.

So who is going to do the cleaning (not that much of that gets done...'dust') well I guess the little old woman or man will do their best, reach for a broken cup off the floor, fall over, break their hip, smash their head and die of pneumonia in hospital. Therafter pronounced on death cert cause of death 'pneumonia', not 'withdrawal of home help service'.

So will you live longer if you need to be bathed, and dressed and put in your wheelchair. yep, probably, only snag ...you'll live in squalor to the bitter end.

Nice thought.