Thread: [Continuation] The Trump Presidency: Part 22
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Old 22nd May 2020, 11:34 PM   #59
Aridas
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Originally Posted by Guybrush Threepwood View Post
If you look in the replies to that tweet there's a video which has been going round the twittersphere which appears to show a well built black male nurse knocking seven bells out of a white care home resident. If genuine the guy needs to be locked up. It allegedly happened in Detroit.
Based on that description, honestly, it could be the case easily enough, but... "cherry-picking" comes to mind.

Care homes are a very mixed bag, so to speak. There are plenty of good ones, I think, but there are also a heck of a lot of ones where the people being "cared for" are outright abused on a regular basis. Systemically, there's serious problems in a number of ways.

Still, here's a not so random link that touches on some basics of the subject.

From that, some important and quick takeaways are -

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Between 2017 and 2018, 1 in 6 adults aged 60 or older suffered some type of abuse while in a community setting, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO also notes that 2 in 3 nursing home staff members reported that they abused nursing home residents over the past year.
Nearly 1 out of 3 nursing homes in the U.S. have been issued citations for abuse.
Nursing home abuse, along with elder abuse in general, goes greatly underreported, according to the Office of the Inspector General.
As of 2015, 1.3 million people lived in nursing homes throughout the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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