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stonebutchooze · 5 months
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whenever I say I worked at a care home people always assume I mean an OLD PEOPLE'S care home and start talking about dementia, and even when I correct them and say no, it was adults of all ages with disabilities like cerebral palsy, some of them younger than me, people still don't listen and start talking about how hard it is "when you get to that age".
like people who live in 24/7 care for their entire adult lives exist!!!! residential care is NOT something that only comes into play at the end of your life. lack of awareness and funding is, in my opinion, partly why negative experiences of full time or respite residential care are so widespread.
ALSO when I successfully clarify that I worked with people of all ages, people start talking about how SAD it is when young people who have conditions like cerebral palsy can't move or talk or whatever. and I ALSO take issue with that. I think seeing disabled people's experiences as wholly "sad" or "what a shame" pre-emptively dictates what kind of life we expect disabled people to live. people in residential care CAN be happy, largely independent, or happy with their level of control where they are dependent on others. if we assume they can't, we won't even try to help them get there.
some people have high support needs at home and then go into residential care. some people spend their whole lives in residential care. some people won't need it at all with proper support and funding at home. people need support, not pity and people seeing their lives as lost causes.
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alpaca-clouds · 8 months
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There is something wrong about the narrative...
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You know this kind of graphic, right? The population pyramid. And I do have a problem with it.
No, not with the pyramid itself. The pyramid is okay and valid. It just shows how the population looks in regards to age. No, my problem is with the narrative around it: "The pyramid is top-heavy and now the pension and care does not work anymore!!"
Technically this is wrong. And yes, the pyramid originally was exactly about that. About showing how the work done by the young people would pay into the system, so that old people could retire at some point and get care. Because originally, of course, we needed that bottom-heavy pyramid to make sure that there were enough people to do all the important work and take care of older people reliant on care.
Only... that it really is not true anymore, right? It more is like... it is just again the system being broken. Because capitalism sucks.
Let me address the two supposed problems with the entire pyramid and what not: 1) "Who is gonna pay for it?" and 2) "Who is going to do the care work?"
Who is gonna pay for the retirement?
See, the theory over here in Germany is technically that during your work time you pay into the social security net and should get back later what you paid in. But, obviously, you technically do not just save up for your own retirement. The money you pay into social security right now gets paid out to the people currently receiving their retirement benefits.
Hence the problem: When more people are on retirement benefits, while fewer people pay into the social security, the math does not work.
But... Like literally all problems related to people suffering from poverty (like a lot of old people are doing) it could be easily solved by redistributing the immense wealth of the super rich. Literally nobody needs to have more than 1 billion dollars. Heck. Nobody really needs more than 10 million, if we are really honest.
And no, giving that money to the rich does in fact not help the economy, if we are going by pro-capitalist logics. Redistributing the wealth, does.
Really, we do not even need retirement funds, if we just gave out UBI for everyone. (Or went communist.)
And that we can finance by taxing the rich. Also taxing any sort of stock trading.
But who is going to do the care work?
See, here is the other issue, where just capitalism is the problem. Because technically there is not a lack of people who would be able to do the care work and would be willing to do it, if only the jobs in care work would be a) fairly compensated and b) actually respected in society.
See, when we look at the job market today, we see in fact a lot of "bullshit jobs", as David Graeber calls it in his book by the same name. Meaning: Jobs that produce nothing of societal value. Jobs, that society could do well without and that quite often aim to enforce the hierarchies of capitalism. Literally.
Hence, heck, even if we had too few people to work in care (something that technically really is not true), we could easily just get rid of those kinds of jobs. In general there are a lot of jobs that only exist to give the appearance of keeping people busy. (The story of why the 40 hour work week is bullshit is a story for another day.)
But yeah, the reason why most people are kept away and pushed out of the care industry is just how underpaid and overworked everyone there is.
See, caring for people is actually something that many people find fulfilling. But not under those circumstances. So, better the circumstances and you will have enough folks to work in care.
So, yeah. Whenever someone keeps whining about "top heavy pyramids" just tell them: "The problem is not birth rates. The problem is capitalism."
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silverandzlo · 1 year
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It's been months but I can't get over this.
As some of you know I'm on a light work schedule due to disabilities. I only work 4 days a week. My job pays well enough and I rent out my spare room.
Well I had this one coworker who would comment every time I mention doing anything outside of work "I don't understanding why you can do that but not work one more day"
Like bitch I can do that because I work one less day! I can see my family, go to my friends birthday party, have a hobby.
I work four days, sleep one, sleep half one, do house work and appointments and have one day a week where I can do something that makes staying alive worth it!
I'm sorry that you think because I am disabled I am not allowed to enjoy my life at all.
The worst part. We are disability care workers.
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korya-elana · 9 months
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Omg my patient was talking about the hospital’s Christian priest and one of the sisters walked in and Kay had to front for half a second because I very nearly said “Oh, speak of the devil” 😂😂😂
~Em
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jaydiann · 1 year
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My Reality
It’s currently 5AM in Scotland and I’m on my second night shift in a row, in the last 48 hours I have been physically assaulted, verbally abused and had two mental breakdowns. This career choice, was my own.
I have worked through a pandemic, had a 90p pay raise and yet I can’t afford to keep my heating on this winter. At this point, I’m debating on choosing heat over food because my IBS hates all food currently. So what’s the point?
I’m also sat here with a very badly torn muscle, and an infected foot yet I can’t afford to take time off to recover. For someone who was branded a “hero” and clapped for, I sure feel like a villain. I’m one of the lucky ones, I have more disposable income than my parents who both work full time.
I’m one of the lucky ones because I can afford to keep the lights on, for how long I do not know.
I am a healthcare worker, a part of the backbone that kept this country running while those in power partied.
I am a healthcare worker. A part of the backbone of this country, who is choosing between heat, food, and seeking education.
The tories have driven me and my colleagues to our knees. The economic crisis has colleagues forgoing food on shift so their children can eat.
Change needs to happen now.
Tories out.
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lexlawuk · 23 days
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Immediate Closure of Ukraine Family Scheme and Revised Care Worker Rights (HC 556)
In a recent development, the Home Office has implemented crucial changes affecting care workers and the abrupt closure of the Ukraine Family Scheme. This unexpected shift, effective from February 19, 2024, raises concerns about the government’s approach to immigration policies and has significant implications for affected individuals. Changes for Care Workers Implementation Date: March…
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isakyki · 7 months
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not me being called into work on my day off bc someone’s just walked out being a carer is honestly a full time job you get no time off 🥲
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atinygoblin · 9 months
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Trigger warning : death
I work as a night health care assistants in an nursing home. Started in march a year ago and I’m still here. It easy enough to do it, but to actually stay is hard. Not gonna sugar coat it - it’s a gross job. You can’t work in a nursing home if you are weak stomach, bleh!
All five of your senses are being constantly offended. I’m not allowed to give much detail on what goes on but there is one thing certain that you’ll have to go through is death.
Death is something that everyone will eventually experience, but it will happen in a nursing home. Before tonight, I’ve been considered because I’ve only had to come face to face with it once but as promising as death is, tonight it’s 2.
In care, we “lay out” the resident who has passed, which consists of washing, dressing and laying out the person. The whole job of that is just weird. It takes comfort in mind that they are peaceful and clean but handling a body…knowing that they’ve passed - a dead body in your hands right now?
I don’t think there’s a word for the feeling. Unsettling?? Awkward?? Morbid?? It’s confusing and hard to come to terms with. Having a healthy relationship with death is something I take pride in. I’m not afraid to die, I have the comfort that dying is just a human thing to do, just as breathing?
I feel like the context of death plays with how you view it. I imagine laying out someone who’s death could’ve been prevented would be upsetting?? Infuriating?? I would be, however in a nursing home - there is peace.
Silence
Respect
And peace.
The only pain that is felt after is through their families and friends, not them. Guilt free
As a carer, you would expect someone who cares. It’s not that I don’t care, it’s just normal - it’s expected. My job is to make it comfortable and make sure they’re not in pain.
It does make me feel like a grim reaper, in the sense that I’m helping them pass from one to another life (depending on you outlook of life). Like a soul transfer. If you believe in souls?
I like to believe in souls, just an essence of our energy that we collect and emit through our lives. Where does it go after you die? Idk? I personally believe recarnatation, but not just tied down to earth. Call me a hippie, but souls can come from anywhere; Maybe a random planet as an alien. Maybe from an alternative universe where you were a cat that had human pets. The possibilities are endless and shouldn’t be ruled out.
Dealing with a death is a heavy weight to carry on your shoulder. The responsibility of making someone else relative to look peaceful is a morbid job. It’s all worth it because it makes the families grief a bit more pleasant. As pleasant as it can get I suppose.
To sum up, working with death is weird. No grief on you but there should be.
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thebibliosphere · 5 days
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Whenever I talk about the medical neglect and ableism I've encountered as a victim of the healthcare system, there's always some cockwaffle who feels entitled to come into my inbox and make the argument of "not all doctors" while talking about how "people like them" (because it's always someone in a field of medicine who does this) are doing their best and it's really hard because so many people fake being ill to get on welfare (Yikes), but like, yeah, obviously #not all doctors, because if all doctors were negligent, bullying scum bags, I'd be dead.
But here's the thing: while I truly believe that the majority of doctors are doing their best in a system stacked against them and their patients, their presence does not negate the mass harm caused by the bad ones. And there are far more bad ones than you realize.
Fuck, John Oliver literally did a segment on this last week:
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Yes, the truly bad, malicious doctors are in the minority. Most are just horrifically burned out and fighting a losing battle against a system, killing both them and their patients through a lack of funding and resources and profound overwork.
But the malicious ones do exist, and they will go out of their way to harm patients who don't kowtow to them.
I almost lost my life because when I was in my early twenties, I told a doctor I didn't think she was listening to me, and I disagreed with her assessment of my mental health (she was not a mental health doctor, and I was there for heart palpitations and chronic pain). She retaliated by putting "non-compliant" in my file.
There was also a fun little "doesn't show respect" note too that lives rent-free in my head because I know I wasn't rude. I was polite. I just didn't agree with her, and my refusal to accept her off-handed comment that "you probably have bipolar or BPD" (again, I was there for heart palpitations and chronic pain) meant I was "refusing care."
I wasn't. I just refused to be slapped with a mood/personality disorder when I was there because I kept fucking fainting when I stood up.
(Spoiler alert: it was dysautonomia)
That "non-compliant" marker followed me around for years. It followed me across an ocean and effectively ensured that any doctor I saw was going to treat me like absolute dogshit because no one wants to help Difficult Patients. It wasn't until I was so undeniably ill, literally on the brink of death, that anyone helped me.
I'm alive because of a good doctor. And all the good ones that came after him because of him.
So, I know they exist. You don't have to tell me that.
But I really fucking need you to acknowledge the bad ones and that you're part of a system with a long, long history of abusing minorities and vulnerable people. I need you to acknowledge that because it's the only way we're going to survive this godforsaken nightmare and make things better.
So yeah, #notalldoctors, but if you feel the need to say that because someone talking about being literally left to die by the medical system hurts your feelings, I'm going to have to ask you to take a step back and ask yourself if you're going into medicine for the right reasons.
Namely: do you want to help people, even the "difficult" ones?
Even the ones who might disagree with you?
Even if they're on welfare?
Even if they'll never get "better" in a way that means "cured"?
Just a thought. But hey, what do I know. I'm just someone who experienced hemolytic anemia because doctors kept telling me I was anxious and needed to exercise more 🤷‍♀️.
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Anyway, "Scrooge" should actually mean "wealthy capitalist who doesn't care about the lives and welfare of their workers, even on Christmas", not "person who happens not to like Christmas".
The overly cheerful corporate ads spreading "Christmas cheer" and then making their employees work overtime without pay during the holiday season are the actual Scrooges, not people who just don't like Christmas for one reason or another.
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politijohn · 5 months
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Let’s go! Unionize!
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ceilidho · 1 month
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I don’t give a fuck about billionaire romances WHERE ARE the KU romances about welders and train dispatchers and rail signallers and boiler operators and aircraft mechanics and plumbers and line cooks and
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shu-of-the-wind · 7 months
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okay because i am DEATHLY curious about this, please select from the options below. reblog with your country of origin as well please.
ETA BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SNARKY: i am asking it this specific way with these specific poll options (american vs non-american) because it's my understanding and experience that most US state public schools actively suppress any teaching of labor history in any concrete way to the point of editing textbooks. i'm not trying to be an american exclusionist here or say that there weren't non-american labor movements. i'm saying that as a historian with degrees i have noticed that there is a very different attitude towards teaching labor history in the united states than there is in other countries. for fuck's sake.
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marzipanandminutiae · 4 months
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brought to you by "The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791" by Louis Crompton
when you first start studying queer history: sapphic acts have basically never been criminalized in any western society! so queer women have always had it easier than queer men!
when you delve even the slightest bit deeper: why do we still believe this
(OP cannot control who does and does not reblog this post, but she firmly believes that trans women are women)
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reasonsforhope · 2 months
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Btw, if you really just Need A Job (tm)
I'd really recommend looking into care work
Care work here is specifically being a home care aid, a care aid or assistant at any kind of residential home.
This for usually for elderly or disabled adults - and those are the ones that tend to be most entry level, from what I've seen, but also for mental health, addiction recovery etc. (With the obvious caveat that some of these jobs will be more emotionally intense than others)
I'm so serious about this guys. I was applying to jobs in care work for just three weeks, starting a couple days before Christmas, and in that time I got three interviews, two jobs offers, and five additional interview requests
Care work needs people CONSTANTLY
because it's a huge sector but very hard for them to keep staff long-term. Partly because it can be high burn-out, and there's definitely toxic places out there you should watch out for. And partly because a lot of people think care work is beneath them
AND they ACTUALLY MEAN IT when they say they're entry level. Because it's so hard for them to get staff that a lot of them will advertise super aggressively that they will train you themselves. A lot of them will straight up pay for your CPR and First Aid certifications, once they hire you, too (and you can get a leg up on applications by getting a CPR/First Aid certification for like. $30 to $80, at least in the US). They also accept experience taking care of elderly/disabled/etc. family members as real experience
Like, obviously don't do it if you hate taking care of people, but if you're open to it, it's probably by far your best shot of getting hired rn, statistically
(eta: Genuinely disclaimer that it can be super taxing emotionally and large portions of the industry are indeed fucked, and def don't take a job in this field if you're gonna be an asshole to the people you're caring for, but sometimes you just need whatever job you can get.)
Seriously, though, the first time I applied for a care work job (in October 2023, yes short timeline, like I said there's some toxic workplaces etc. out there), I applied to like ten or fifteen jobs over the course of a week or so. Within three weeks, I was working.
(And they did provide all of the training, fwiw)
If you need a job and no one is hiring, seriously consider looking into it
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lexlawuk · 3 months
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Health and Care Visa 2024: Updates, Eligibility, and Changes
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