Older people still being shunted around in hospitals!!

Really we thought that gone were the days of older people being kept for hours on trolleys in hospital corridors, sadly this appears not to be the case. Ethel my neighbour of 85's friend, Sally 80,has just related her sad

experience.

Having fallen, Sally was taken to her local hospital, here she spent eight hours on a trolley. Having sustained a fractured patella (broken knee-cap for those who may not know the medical term), Sally was then transferred to

Stoke Mandeville Hospital. All went reasonabely well until the night before Sally was due to bedischarged. She was woken up at 11pm and told that her bed was required, she would therefore have to be transferred to another

hospital.

Can you imagine how distressing it must be to be woken up and told you have to go to another hospital. Really is that any way to treat anyone, never mind ladies in their eightieth year? Surely this is no way to run a health

service.

Ethel is of the opinion that it is rediculous to stop older people smoking and drinking alcohol. She thinks it would make more sence for both to be available to over 70s at a reduced rate, which would she thinks increase the

death rate for older people, after all she says there aren't the resources to provide for us. As a one time orthopaedic sister who spent many years caring for others, this is a very sad reflection on life as she sees it.

Her own experiences have led her to this sad conclusion, having herself fallen and sustained fractures to her tibia on one leg and ankle on the other. Surgery to her ankle left her with a rotated joint which she was assured

would improve with physiotherapyshe was aware it would make no difference and told the surgeon that if she'd been younger he might have made a better job of it!! She is now in constant pain with little or no faith left in the

NHS.

These two intelligent, courageous women feel let down and abandoned.
burberry outlet
chanel 2.55
Can't we do better than this? Its time our older patients were listened to and taken notice of and not treated like pieces of baggage to be moved from pillar to post.

The names but not experiences are fictitious.