Elderly people warehoused in care home with insufficient food and water
A coroner said the owners and staff at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly, were responsible for a gross betrayal of the trust placed in them
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Dr Prana Das was owner of the scandal-hit Brithdir home in New Tredegar were residents were dehumanised (Image: Getty Images (main))
A coroner has slammed the care given to six residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he gave a withering summary of a catalogue of failings – accusing managers of “dehumanising” and “warehousing” the elderly.
Assistant Gwent Coroner Geraint Williams began summing up after hearing six weeks of evidence into the deaths of the residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.
A coroner has slammed the care given to six residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he gave a withering summary of a catalogue of failings – accusing managers of “dehumanising” and “warehousing” the elderly.
Assistant Gwent Coroner Geraint Williams began summing up after hearing six weeks of evidence into the deaths of the residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, South Wales.
He accused the owners and staff at the home of a “gross betrayal of the trust” placed in them by the relatives of the residents by keeping them in the dark of the poor standards of care.
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image captionStanley Bradford, June Hamer, Evelyn Jones and Edith Evans were all residents at Brithdir
Residents at a care home were dehumanised by staff and the standards of care were wholly inadequate , an inquest has found.
The deaths of six residents at Brithdir Nursing Home from 2003-2005 in New Tredegar, Caerphilly, eventually triggered a police investigation.
Coroner Geraint Williams said residents were warehoused , meaning they are simply kept, fed and watered .
The evidence suggested even the feeding and watering was inadequate .
Stanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 were all residents at the home.
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