Shocking betrayal in our care homes

ShEILA MORRIS is an 84-year-old stricken with Parkinson’s disease. When she needed roundthe-clock care, her family decided she would have to go into a £ 5,000- amonth nursing home.

But her worried son Clive installed a spy camera in her room. What he discovered was shocking.

he alleges she was violently sick one night and left unattended for six hours. he claims she was given ‘dangerous’ food and suffered eight urinary-tract infections.

This week’s Mail Investigations Unit revelations of endemic abuse, with four in ten care homes failing inspections, are devastating for those of us with parents in care.

The day we took Mum into a care home — packing her precious mementoes, including pictures of her parents, children and grandchildren, none of whom she could remember due to Alzheimer’s — was one of the most heartbreaking of my life. Sadly, it was the only option.

But when our loved ones are treated badly, we children feel utterly powerless and betrayed.