Jennie Jacques Instagram – SWIPE for @upandoutproject comics – each purchase donates an extra one ☝️ 📖 to a care home! #elderlycare #emzfit 💥 #powertothepensioners * Author & psychotherapist Barbara Robb founded AEGIS (Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions) a 🇬🇧 pressure group insistent on better care for our elderly; also the name of the goatskin shield 🛡️ of Zeus in Greek Mythology #protectelders 💥AEGIS published 📖 Sans Everything – A CASE TO ANSWER; a must-read & yet so difficult to get hold of. A collection of horrific events & circumstances from real people who received inadequate & inhumane treatment in hospitals in the 60’s – I pause; this controversial book was compiled in the 1967 & I am sad to contemplate that we have many similar issues left on repeat 🔁 2023. The focus here is in the ignorance of modern psychiatric & geriatric treatment & care, with out negating the fact that the staff can often be in “crisis-mode” dealing with more work than workload; but when kindness, manners & compassion disappear, Robb does not sympathise with excuses. Whistleblowers are condemned & accused of exaggeration. I wish ❤️ 1/2 these statements were guilty of hyperbole; they are not! Discrediting evidence, falsely, is a dangerous “go to” strategy. Robb meticulously lists the abuse, highlighting how “turning a blind eye 👁️” is the norm. Surprise visits reveal surprising facts & the thieves/perpetrators & “carers” are caught out. Many will be aware of the selflessness & “patience of a saint” associated with being a “good” nurse/carer, but one rotten apple 🍎 in the barrel is minacious & evidence over the years proves there’s often more than one preying on the vulnerable. Robb’s obituary reads: “Fearless champion of the cause of old people in hospitals.” Robb’s legacy was significant: as Abel-Smith said in 1990, “For one woman […] to suddenly do so much in such a short period – and tragically, to die so soon – is a remarkable story.”