OK what is the greater need.
In care homes it is fashionable to cut costs on incontinence products, especially on pads. Usually giving dementia residents 2 pads in the day and 1 pad at night.
Dilemma: leave a resident with a pad on for the full night despite it being full of urine and faeces because there is no other pad to change to. Creating an epidemic of urinary tract infections and skin integrity problems costing more to treat than the saving made on pads.
Take the pad away and leave the resident to wet or soil the bedding with urine soaking everything leaving the resident not only wet through but cold also and all of the associated skin problems as a result, again costing more to rectify than the saving made on pads.
More importantly isn't the result of withholding pads for "monetary gain" a form of physical and emotional abuse.
If you work in a care home and this happens at your place of work you need to stop a think. Do you want to be labelled as an abuser because your company want to save approximately 2% of its annual budget.
Pure false economy. Get it stopped now complain, raise issues, if necessary go to the CQC.
