They Worked For a Corrupt Disability Care Facility - Here's What They Saw.
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My mother exploited me into a program like this because she didn't want to care for me anymore. My "case manager" treated me as subhuman because my mother lied and told them i was essentially disabled beyond any like normal functionality.
I left and I am now in college getting my teaching degree
❤hugs❤ everyone is valuable, everyone is worthwhile...except the people who treated you this way.
omg i rlly hope things are better now
How did you eacape?
I'm glad you got out of there, I hope you're doing well
How fucked can ppl be fuckin hell
I'm autistic myself and being in a facility like this is my biggest fear. It feels like people don't care about people with disabilities a lot of the time unless theres money involved. Even for someone who doesn't have a lot of needs, it's hard to find.
That being said, the "man with the drugs" story sent my sides into orbit
Hey I am autistic myself it is something I want to avoid
I also think I am a winged wolf named starlight
Another autistic being here, I was in a facility for mental health not disorders/disabilities that was bat shit crazy, I'm highly functional and worry about it all the time. I think it is a pretty common fear in the community due to the way people treat people with autism which sucks. If I may, fuck Autism Speaks and the puzzle piece logo, we aren't just s puzzle piece.
And yes, the "man with the drugs" story had me laughing, I often listen to Azeal stories when play FPS games and my team was concerned because we'd lost the round right as I heard it.
Autism is a serious thing, not just a fun disorder. It isn't fun for all of us.
@@starlightskywolf Wait what is that end? Joke or real? cuz if its real, pls explain
eyyyy autistic bros
I have asperger's syndrome (+ ADHD) but am lucky to have many people to help me although my parents are kinda assholes cuz they don't care about my needs as an Asperger
@@D3M0N.77 I am strange but I also have adhd anxiety and depression
The disabled should be treated way better, im so sorry for all of them.
You be suprised that how much shit we get trown in our faces whatever we do from people, sociaity and from the government. It's really a "damned if we do damned if we don't" situation.
Could talk for hour on all the shit i have dealt with from other people just because I have a neurodevelopmental disorders.
I agree
I agree, I'm autistic myself and it feels like people really don't give a fuck about people with disabilities unless there's money involved
The fact that torture and abuse are still fully legalised against disabled people for the most part is what really gets you. Nobody thought to oppose this? Ah, right, cause most people no matter what political alignment don’t give a damn about us dying. There are so many examples I can think of, off of the top of my head, where people are actually even supporting the erasure of disabled people. It makes me angry, so angry, to hear about what people do to us daily, cause they know they’ll always stay under the radar.
My sister is non-verbal with, essentially, Cerebral Palsy, and epilepsy-like seizures. Fortunately, there's one person in the residential group home she is in, is responsible for ensuring that the clients there are given the medications properly ...
... but the downside is, because this home is run by a charitable trust, whilst the 'direct' payment for my sister living there, plus expenses, comes out of here disability Social Security - as this is in England, I can't give a direct like-for-like for what she gets, but suffice to say the two forms of disability, to put bluntly, are really for those whose disabilities are "severe, and unrecoverable from", a wording that sticks in the back of my throat - which amounts to a not inconsiderable amount of money, a fair chunk of which is essentially payment for her living there.
Fortunately, everything I was written out, like a spreadsheet, but accounted for down to the penny, and any extra, beyond her own toiletries, is petty cash, out of which a weekly amount is allocated, especially towards hydrotherapy, as we both have scoliosis, but hers is severe in enough that the same surgeon whom operated on us, as this may be congenital, not idiopathic, essentially built a scaffolding around her entire spine, from, iirc, C-4 to L-5 , and the CP means certain muscle groups are in permanent spasm; so her having weekly hydrotherapy is a good thing ...
... however, and yes, there is an however ...
I work in the same industry we call it community support work and this hurts so much that there are places/organisations like this
I worked in one 10ish years ago. Nothing has changed.
As someone on the Autism Spectrum and having depression, stuff like that is a large reason why I mostly avoid getting professional help for my depression.
Like, I think it says a lot when people would rather suffer then seek "help", given said "help" could very likely just make things worse just look at places like the Judge Rotenburg Center, that place doesn't help people on the spectrum it just forces them to mask and pretend to be "normal" under threat of tortue and abuse.
Here's how you avoid the worst of it: when you go for therapy or any level of care, never say anything to the effect that you're thinking of self arm or herding others, especially not the kind of harm where you send yourself or others into eternity, if you catch what I'm saying.
I'm autistic. If the therapist you find is non-evil and competent and for you, therapy is a good.
what if those thoughts are your main issue and driving you mad? id just confess but explain i hate mental hospitals, i have been in one 2 times now different states and both times it was awful...i have severe ptsd with mental hospitals being a large part of it but they did help me realize i have bipolar so theres atleast that@@breakingboardrooms1778 id basically explain a mental hospital will make me worse
This is revolting, those administrators should be ashamed for the sake of that industry. No one deserves to be mistreated when they have to rely on outside help.
As someone who was born with Cerebral Palsy & almost didn’t make it past birth. This breaks my fucking heart
I'll never understand the idiots in charge who actively tear whoever they can under their company/service down, especially the disabled, young, and elderly. It's already hard enough to live in a world not adjusted for many people, so why make things actively worse for your company in danger of lawsuits and incidents for those who may not be able to care for themselves at no fault of theirs, to make that extra quick penny.
When it's way easier to just not do the right thing and yet get more good stuff (money drugs the like) company's and people end up just not caring anymore and it's deplorable
I believe we are in hell on this world, and the point of spirituality is to overcome this worldly hell. I pray for the weak and powerless all the time.
This is why, as a disabled adult, I’m terrified of going into a care home. I have CP and glad I can be in my own home so far. Being an older millennial, I hope I can stay in my home as I get older and hope that things get better.
To the storyteller: thank you for what you did. You were amazing. Please don’t feel like you failed anyone.
My aunty (now in her late 70s) has cerebral palsy. All I can say based on her pretty remarkable experience (back in the 60s they wanted to put her in a facility, but she fought tooth and nail to become a teacher) is to advocate for your independence as much as possible. And if you need assistance doing that seek someone out. I actually asked her what the one thing she would say to someone living with a disability and that was it.
Best of luck mate
As a chronically ill disabled person, I deal with a lot of shit that’s forced me to become very resilient about it over the years. I wish I didn’t have to be.
It breaks my heart hearing about these facilities, which are meant to help people fail so many.
At some point, a person has to ask themselves whether these facilities are actually meant to care for the disabled, and not just be a place that imprisons them for existing as disabled. I hope for a day where more care facilities…actually end up being care facilities.
that's because they're not built to help, they're built to shove all the disabled people into a corner where the ableds don't have to see or think about them
That last comment mirrors an observation I made last week: All too often, carers (e.g. for the elderly) use the same tone of voice with their patients/clients you'd hear when adults are talking to children.
Ugh yes, I hate that so much. Just treat them like any other adult.
Its a tone that comes naturally when address those not on the same level of understanding/ability as you. Its both to sooth, and to distance yourself from them on a real human-to-human way. If you address somebody in that state the same way you talk to a friend, co worker, or loved one then it makes their situation personal. Dealing with people in that much pain or in those situations will destroy you if you choose to be close.
You should care, you should be polite, you should try to understand. But i would never blame anybody that needs to cope to exist in that environment.
And i fucking hate people that judge that have never lived that situation.
@@Kanis5000 I fear that, from my perspective, I find it hard *not* to judge. It's infantilising people with care needs, who may be just as mentally able as those without. The assumption seems to be that physical infirmity automatically comes with mental infirmity. Yes, I get that it's a means of reducing the emotional side of the labour, but I've seen it in carers who've interacted with the patient on a daily basis for over a year - more than enough time to know that it not only isn't necessary, but would be *hated* by the patient.
I worked as a CNA in a nursing home for about a year. Burned me out. The nursing home i was at was one of the better facilities because it was located directly across the street from the county health department and was not run for profit. The result is that all the residents who were deemed too "combative" or "required too much advanced care" were funneled there out of the many private facilities in the area because caring for these people would really just cut into the facilities profits too much. I had residents who tried to kill me every day, residents who were unable to communicate or even physically move due to paralysis. We all did our best for these people. I was barely making above minimum wage and because i was a certified nursing assistant, i had education. Because of the level of care all these people needed, it was just too much. I still feel bad for leaving, and it's been 8 years. I held the hands of people as they were dying, singing songs and talking with them because their families abandoned them long ago. I was there long enough to get a sense and be able to tell with some accuracy when people were going to pass away.
It gets to you. And our system allowed for these extremely difficult residents to be concentrated into one physical location. Health care CANNOT be a for profit enterprise. In fact, anything necessary for human survival should not be for profit. Food, shelter, water, medical care, public safety. All those things should not be for profit if we want things to get better. The problem is billionaires just want more billions at the cost of lives.
My girlfriend had a similar situation to the first story. Almost 7 foot tall, physically strong, highly autistic young man who would become extremely violent out of nowhere attacking other residents & staff was housed with a group of very vulnerable patients, mostly suffering from severe learning difficulties in a building mainly staffed by young, small & weak (no offense) women and none of the higher-ups cared. The extra money they received for housing him was worth more than the happiness and safety of the other residents and staff.
I'm disabled and need the assistance of a ventilator to breathe. I live in something akin to a nursing home and am fortunate enough to be in a decent facility.
The management of some of these facilities are so focused on cutting costs and making profits. They jump over dollars just to pick up pennies. Some of these facilities and agencies are human cattle farms.
I’ve worked in the health industry for about 3 years now as a caregiver. It’s always horrible to hear these kind of situations.
Thank you for reporting on these kind of things.
These corrupt “(something that should not be corrupt)” videos are some of my favorites. Can’t watch it fully right now cause ew school but definitely going to later.
Sounds like some of things that happen in the more rural VA hospitals in the USA. Some folks have no business working in healthcare and others lose too much humanity to carry on. Its a business fronted in human tragedy and requires as much personal integrity and empathy as we can muster to support.
when i was a kid my mom was an admin for a home though she was practically the everything at that place in reality and as a kid id help out with like getting meals out to the dinning room we didnt have a ton of residents but we treated those people as family and some of them were lucky to see family maybe once a year so we kinda became their family and to this day i look at how some of these places treat these people and it makes me sick because i look back at those wonderful people we looked after and i dont understand how people can be cruel to people who need their help we had one woman whos family decided to move her somewhere closer and i still remeber her arguing with them because in her words she didnt want to leave her home
The ability of people to dehumanise others is a true terror
Oh no, that is definitely not the right way of treating people with disabilities. What probably shocked me the most is not only the money-squeezing happening there I didn’t know about, but also the neglect or ignorance on the needs of their patients, which is not the fault of the caretakers, they are doing their best out there, but rather the fault of the management of that agency. Thank you for sharing your story, there‘s not a lot you could have done better within this system and I‘m sure you did your best for the patients and thank you, Azeal, for the video!
I deal with the Department of Veterans on a regular basis. I don't have 'horror' stories, but I do have plenty of stories showing just utter incompetence.
One case, a doctor misdiagnosed a bone chip as 'just a sprain' in my left ring finger.
A second doctor found out it was cut tendons requiring surgery to pin them back into place. This second doctor wasn't happy at this misdiagnosis and ordered me in for surgery. They had to pin the tendon back into place and insert a metal rod through the bone of my finger to keep it still for two months. Even though the rod is out, I've still lost about 20% of the grip in my left hand. Funny enough, earlier this year the VA sent me papers outlining all of the diagnosises and treatments they've administered to me, ever. They still have it listed as a sprain!
In another case I was given the go ahead to visit a private dentist. The VA has the Community Care Network where they outsource specialists if the region doesn't have dedicated VA doctors. In this case, the VA found a local dentist and set up an examination appointment with them. I did the appointment. The dentist says, "Just come back next month for a cleaning, and that's it." The VA gives permission for this cleaning. I do the cleaning and recieve, in the mail, the paperwork outlining the services done and fees, and that I owe nothing.
Shortly thereafter, I get a letter in the mail from the VA saying, "Your dentist appointments have been declined because they weren't authorized."
That led me to yell, "You're the ones who set it up!" I get on the phone with the VA help line. Thankfully the man that took my case was dedicated to his job. He went through the paperwork, found both the authorization and the refusal papers, got on the phone with the dentist's office, who said they were paid by the VA. In the end, this man said, "Two things could've happened. Either there's a serious glitch in the computers, or someone upstairs isn't doing their job! Guess which one." He got it cleared in the end.
That's just two. *BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!*
its tragic things like these are still open
Woah, I just finished watching your vid with the hoarders cleaner, and this notif popped up
this hits really close to home for me as an ex-resident of a simular orginization. I'm curently fighting these indistries on a legal level in hopes that no one has to suffer an experiance close to mine. due to the recent events ive been now suffering from PTSD and its really sad to see this sort of neglect affect others. I've seen an idivitual suffer from canser and from the neglect from the administration, the resident had parished a month after leaving their care. its heart warming to still see others in this indistry still with a heart to care for someone that cant care for themselves (compleatly). I would love to share my story and bring more awarness to this issue in disabled care
Good on you for fighting the system, I hope that can help bring about some change.
I work as a dining room server at a retirement community, most of the time things seem well but i do have one major gripe. The CNAs are never around when you need them, and the residents all have buttons on a necklace or bracelet in order to call them in the cases they need help getting back to their room. Half of the time these buttons eother don't work at all, or they just sit in the nursing station and talk. It's so frustrating to have to hunt down someone to take a resident back to their room like 15 minutes to half an hour after the duning room is closed.
I could have easily been in this kind of place thanks to my mother being a horrible person and me being autistic. I feared this so much.
As a person who has been in this job for about 10 years i can sort of explain the corruption, and when he says it is corruption from incompetence he is 100% on the money.
It use to be that the DSPs had a good long training for a week or two then allowed to do their own thing but would work along a veteran staff. But now we have to work while also training a staff as we just dont have the staff to dedicate to training. We even lost the position for the dedicated on site trainer since we just cant fill the role.
Now you have staff that you try training but also need to do cares for a good number of people, so you arent sure how well they are trained. Then after they work a month another new person gets thrown in and part of their training is done by the other new staff since you don't have the time to have them shadow you and vice versa.
This leads to them "knowing" things the other new staff taught them, generally being wrong or inefficient and not knowing themselves there is a proper way.
If they don't burn out then you have a "veteran" staff who doesn't know how to properly do their job training the now even newer staff, essentially ingraining the degregation of skills into the system.
This then leads to poor reporting of all kinds, where the old staff is just burnt out, the new staff just not knowing, and then management who never worked at the house now getting involved in the day to day instead of a dedicated manager. They only having an idea of what NEEDS to get done for us to continue to gain funding, but not knowing all the other things that should be done.
Covid was hell on the system, the lack of consistent classes on our jobs, the difficulty that raises to training new staff, and then things being pressed into online classes instead of in person making a atmosphere of people not knowing where to go.
Thank you so much for this interview. Disabled people are very much screwed over by the system in a myriad of ways, and we need more awareness about it. I myself am disabled, and while I thankfully have a supportive environment and don't need intensive care, I've seen my less fortunate disabled friends suffer so much. Society in general treats us like burdens, and it's disgusting that agencies designed to help us are only focused on money.
Being more "independent" comes with its challenges too--if you're on disability benefits, you're penalized for trying to work. It sucks because the benefits are below poverty level, so not working means you stay in poverty.
I very much hope that disability agencies, the SSA, and the government as a whole will stop trying to control and restrict every aspect of disabled people's lives in the interest of saving a buck, and start listening to us and helping us access what we need!
As someone who worked in a place like this for adults with disabilities as a DSP (I also worked in a nursing home), this is way too accurate in so many places... the companies are only looking for money and alot of us weren't getting paid enough and working long hours so a lot of the employees stopped caring or got away with things that were so fucked. Thank you for sharing this story
My husband worked in a supportive living company, and absolutely everything that came up in this video are things he dealt with. The almost had a non verbal guy die because his intestines twisted, but none of the staff cared enough to check on why his behavior had changed. He told his manager something was wrong for a week straight before the poor man's intestines twisted and started to die and they rushed him to an ER. He wound up on a colostomy bag because they couldn't repair the damaged. If someone, anyone, had listened they could have medically intervened sooner.
There are so many stories, he did the job for over 13 years. One of the guys really disliked him so he would try to run him down with his wheelchair. No idea why, but instead of changing staff so that this person didn't have to have someone in his house that he didn't like, they just treated it as a behavioral problem instead of having a little basic respect. There were other people available and willing to work in that house, but the company decided this "was a boundary that he had to learn". Dude, that's the opposite of a boundary.
He was good at the job, really good, but they run you into the ground. They had him work with a lot of non verbal people because he would pick up on stuff faster than other staff. He told me once that if they paid half a seconds worth of attention to what they were trying to communicate they would know too. He just paid attention to them.
He got fired for something that he didn't do, and could have got his job back, but he just couldn't do it anymore. You have to choose between breaking state laws or breaking company policy, because the two do not align. The guy that fired him, and every employee that had worked there more than 2-3 years, got caught trying to steal like 2mil. On top of that, they paid out on unemployment for several people that were fired for made up offences. Its horrible.
These places are understaffed and under paid. He did everything that a nurse's aide does, but without the training or the pay of a nurse's aide. They were supposed to get the employees certified, but "decided" not to. Basically it would cost money and they weren't willing to spend it.
I had to learn safe crisis management (the restraints) while working at a youth detention center. Just as terrible of a place.
Its so gross hearing about the treatment they are subjected to.
I used to do maintenance for a nursing home and the amount of elder abuse and neglect that goes on without families knowledge is unfathomable.
its honestly so upsetting how similar this sounds to being in an RTC. in my tweens and early teens i was shipped off to one of those and the abuse i both endured and witnessed was horrific, i was often singled out and bullied by the staff just for being autistic and depressed. i should probably do a video on my experience at some point. the facility has since been permanently closed, thank the fucking stars
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When you got to talking about the requirements, this started sounding a lot like what I went through in the single week I worked in a senior home. This is in Germany. I didn't even know the language, and they still hired me. So I was unable to communicate with most residents. I was told that I could learn the language while on the job, that this would be beneficial for me in that regard. But the fact that I did not understand the language was actively causing them stress. On top of that, I was really getting the impression that the staff here were overworked. I even had one resident who was completely bedridden and nonverbal. I'm not qualified to be caring for such people. I got the fuck out of there before even finishing a single week of work.
sounds like the similar place i lived at that most staff regarded us as pocket liners and such to the point it took almost being burned up in a fire to convince me to leave the few people there i cared about behind who were also stuck there
I currently work for a homeless shelter and this particular video resonates with me heavily.
Every time I see a notification that Azeal uploaded, I immediately want to write "AZEAL UPLOADED A VIDEO, WE BALL" in the comments, as interacting with a video early surely would help with the algorithm and also I'm excited to see one of my favorite UA-camrs posted something...
And then I see what the video is about and immediately go "Oh." due to the very contrasting atmosphere of the video.
Still, I hope the comment section will in fact ball, in order to yeet this into the algorithm and spread the story further.
Fuck it we ball bro
Shit like this is why my parents were afraid to have me diagnosed for my mental health issues as a kid. They were scared that putting up that red flag that says I need help would result in the exact opposite, because they had seen that so many times with stories from the classmates of my elder sisters. I am very lucky that my schools up to my adulthood were full of amazing peers and even more amazing staff who could help me through that even without a flag telling everyone I had learning disabilities. It's honestly a miracle I was welcomed instead of bullied and I have almost everyone in those halls to thank for that, even the students.
The jaded side of me would probably say that I only got the help because I was "gifted and talented" and otherwise the system would've marked me down as overly emotional, lazy and useless, but due to my "intelligence" I was valued as a star pupil that fought through my difficulties, when in truth I think I'm not special at all for having my assets shine through. I feel my early life was an example of how people with learning disabilities SHOULD be treated - not as invalid but as valued. In a perfect world, my childhood would not be a rarity - it would be the norm, but this world needs a lot more work before we can call it perfect.
One of my elder sisters works as a disability caring assistant. I'm kinda scared to send this video to her, to be honest, for fear that I'll hear the exact same from her and how much she's suffering through it all. I suppose I can hope that she's not going through the same as this, but there's only one way to know, isn't there?
I hear the opposite from other people. “You’re smart, so you can’t have a problem and are choosing to be this way.” Gifted kids turning out to be burnout adults with ADHD or autism are all over some channels. You had a good group looking out for you.
love it getting more suggestions from your channel dude!!
Thanks for uploading Azeal keep up the good work also thanks to this person for sharing this as well
This is why me an my family are carrying for my grandma from home full-time now. She's non ambulatory, near def an mild dementia. An broke her hip so bad that she needed two surgeries. But because PT stopped showing up two weeks in an just disappeared so the hip can't even move anymore.
The two places my grandma was placed one she got constantly antagonized by anouther patient there, he was allowed to just roam even though he steals an breaks stuff regularly.
So had to pull her from there, an then the second place one of the main doctors had a god complex and would rarely give her her pain meds on time, longest was 8 HOURS overdue.
An the workers there acted really odd and like they didn't like us visiting our grandma. An when we finally got to in again she begged us to just let her come home to die. It was heartbreaking.
We actually had to borderline threaten that place to get her back after they said she needed to stay, cuz we can't provide the care she needs... when we did. One the nurses even tried to basically threaten that if we took her they would be calling social services on us. But called their bluff.
We have no solid proof but we suspect the reason they gave her her pain meds regularly was because they were being stolen. An the horror stories of the stuff she saw an herd was just wrong.
It's just sick how bad carers can be, it's like "you obviously hate people why are you a nurse?"
Ex care home worker here!
A lot of the details mentioned in this video are pretty much unanimous in a lot of care facilities and homes, and the amount of stress and anxiety it causes can be awful
The home I worked in was honestly one of the better ones despite mainly funded by charities/the money the service user or their family had saved to get them there, and were quite self sufficient as they had the equipment necessary to look after specific and complex needs e.g. hoists and even a hair salon
The residents were genuinely some of the sweetest people to interact with, and even for those who couldn’t communicate verbally could be really funny; one had false teeth who would try to nip you when you had to take them out, but we saw the funny side to it. Another memory was of some of the residents singing happy birthday to me not long after I started, though I felt a little embarrassed 😅
The things I didn’t like was the attitude of some of the coworkers. They were much older than me and had been working there for far longer, but even then there was a very “cliquey” attitude/mentality between them, so you didn’t feel like you could really talk or go to them if you had a problem (be it work or personal)
Welcome to our capitalist hellscape, I guess. 🤨
for real
It took a while for me to finally watch the vid cause I had it open in the background for a while but yes, thank you so much Azeal for your fucking awesome work man love it! 🧡🧡🧡
I worked as a DSP for a year in night shift. It got to me and I had to quit, because the clients weren't doing much to help themselves and the company wasn't doing much to help them.
Far out I don’t think I can make it all the way through this one yet. There was another story about a facility in Australia recently that I haven’t been able to watch yet either (its on ABC insiders or four corners i think if anyone is interested).
I’m a disability support worker as well and this stuff doesn’t just make me sad, it makes me angry. Really angry.
yeah this sounds like a great video to eat my dinner to
new azeal videos make my day keep it up man!
the outtro music almost made me cry because it literally reminded me of ‘her’ death
What he says is true. There are some good hearts who take care of these people but then there are a lot just there for a pay check.
I was messing around on my guitar while watching this video, and at the end I was just listening to the guy's final lil speach, but when the guitar end music started to fade in I got so scared and confused at how my guitar was playing by itself lol. I thought there was a ghost or smth.
This one hits home... I was also a DSP before, during, and after the pandemic. I quit for a lot of the same reasons. After one specific incident i couldn't bring myself to go back, despite truly loving the individuals and wanting the best for them. I've had to undergo therapy because of this line of work. I still have nightmares about being in there.
Its heart breaking because I would still be there doing the work if they'd paid me enough and if the companies actually cared about the people- both individuals and the staff.
I’ve been to one of the places I didn’t live in it but it was hell one of my friends committed suicide because of the whole thing it’s sad
Having worked in a similar background at a nursing home, while only being a receptionist at the building. I can 100% concur that the only reason I qualified for the job at all was my high school diploma. Not much of a background check. They just threw me into the frying pan with training and that was that. I will say I had a lot of good memories from that time. But I saw the state of the building, the state of patient care, and while I do believe I worked at a better building.
There were still moments that made me question just how much the residents mattered. Versus the money that the higher-ups wanted to keep coming in.
Person with mild cerebal palsey myself here, never been in a facility to my knowledge but the fact that this is terrifiying had me on the verge of tears
One other "oh great" moment is people being left in their own filth...usually hospitals here are great...but one time while in insane pain from an immune attack at the hospital i threw up and later pissed myself and nobody checked on me all night, respiratory came in around 8am or so and started immediately helping me.
Usually this doesn't happen, it was during covid, i want to hope they were too busy to check on me. I don't know how many times i hit the nurse button only to get no response.
I work in the same field as a DSP for several years, most of the places I’ve worked have been great but the amount of times they do get exploited is insane. I worked at one group home where I quickly found out that they had very high behaviors like to a dangerous extent to themselves, the other residents and staff and getting the cops called on almost a daily basis, punched, bit etc. Also found out the reason this agency had individuals with such high behaviors meant they got more money as well while we made basically minimum wage with barely any certifications like they’ll let just anyone do it (which is why it’s common for the individuals to get abused themselves) I didn’t last there long as I was against everything this agency stood for and all their sketchy behavior to no fault of the individuals, the agency didn’t equip them or us with the tools or knowledge necessary. it’s really shit how they get treated and just looked at as $$$ or cattle for these facilities
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You know what has to be done in situations where these people are being mistreated, and taken advantage of by organizations? Exposure. When it becomes obvious that the organization in question won't do the right thing, when they're following the money and not the care, when they're punishing workers for stopping a threat to someone else, workers need to start taking cameras into the location(s), document as much as they can, even if that means they have to hide the cameras, and even if doing so breaks the law or policy, and then take that evidence to the cops, the corporate office (assuming they aren't in on it), and the media.
Helping people in a terrible situation to get out of that terrible situation is NEVER the wrong thing to do.
I'm not blaming this guy for not doing this, but we as a society, especially those who are in caregiver positions, are obligated to protect those who cannot care for themselves, who cannot protect themselves, and cannot fight back against a system that is taking advantage of them. The way you do that is by exposing it.
This is the 21st century, we shouldn't still be hearing about nightmare situations regarding care for our most vulnerable members of society. This is the kind of thing you expect to hear happened 70 years ago, or more. That it's still happening is beyond inexcusable.
"The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing."
Oh hey you, nice seeing you here :P
Yeah, these kinds of places need to be exposed. Not everyone is cut out for doing that, but if there are enough people who are willing to gather evidence, videos, documents etc. and go through the right channels to correct these issues, perhaps change could happen.
Sometimes exposure isn't enough though. Like in the case of the Judge Rotenburg Center, the entire autistic community online called them out for using shock devices on clients, and the FDA got involved--but they were ultimately let off the hook and they can STILL use those devices. It's pretty awful.
7:22 EUMR (Emergency use of manual restraint)
People that live with disabilities are some of the toughest people in the world ❤
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They very much are.
I truly enjoy these videos ❤
So amazing you did all you could to give back
Used to work in a center like this myself. Got fired and briefly committed to one as retribution. My father was doing a crackdown on corruption there, and I was one of the ones who wasn't corrupt. Naturally they shifted the blame to me to get revenge on my father, as clearly the only reason I wasn't fired was nepotism. Nevermind I was working for a quarter of minimum wage and the only one not guilty. We both learned a different valuable lesson from it. I learned that no good deed goes unpunished. He learned that the best way to get me to do anything is to say "you wanna go back?"
This sounds so familiar...
I dislocated an intervertebral disc while trying to move a 200kg patient on my own. Still have back pain to this day...
Its a shame how we treat the sick and disabled parts of our population!
I used to be involved with the Russian Mafia years ago in Los Angeles. They were involved in many businesses like this back in the day.
Adult day care centers, methadone clinics, and medical equipment rentals were all areas they like to focus on because the government guaranteed payments and it was easy to scam.
This sound a lot like the type of business that they used to run.
I’m a direct care staff currently and I worked for a previous company that I was fired for whistle blowing of the mistreatment of clients. Let’s just say I’m currently in a lovely lawsuit and winning and got the clients being abused removed. New company now nothing like a woman scorned who loves her clients I happened to record and document all malpractice of staff and clients and staff against clients. Working at that company was pure hell. I’m muslim and I was the office joke so I also had other staff report for me to use in court about discrimination against me my religion and my disability. Now I make it my job to personally ruin people’s lives who are performing unethical and horrible maltreatment of employees and clients. I work as a med tech. I witnessed some horrible maltreatment of elderly patients in elder care assistant living. That one is my next location to whistle blow.
Now you guys know why I refuse help, refuse to live in a "home". I'd rather live legally homeless in the countryside.
I won't let myself become a victim again. F the entire industry.
Hay fellow DSP! Sweet! Yea the industry is a joke I only made it 2yrs 3mnts.
That story was sad and depressing.
This was an amazing episode. It makes me think a lot about how we treat people in society who have disabilities.
Also, hey Azeal, I'm so sorry to ask, but you seem like someone who reads comments. Would it be possible to get a link to the ending credit song? I'd like to vibe to it when I'm feeling sad. I've tried searching everywhere and maybe I'm just bad at Google now, but I haven't been able to find it, and it's super cute and I love it
It sounds like you worked at an assisted living facility and I'm glad to know you have good memories
The state must be in on the whole deal too if they aren't willing to stop it? I wonder if there is a way to report them to whatever insurance they are using. That company doesn't deserve the reputation they earned in the past.
My pops worked in SS, on the determining if disabled/how much side, And a lot of people do care but a lot don’t, even at the paperwork level the qualifications are decently low at entry.
They would do take your kid to work day’s so I would go so I get how on that level it works. One time we had an older lady let us sit in on her final meeting for qualification. (I assume the agency had asked and gotten permission well in advance). In the end she didn’t qualify and the judge was a lilttle sad by it and some parents would say how it was sad that we didn’t see someone qualify in the end.
Anyways, it’s disheartening how at the people livelihood level it is horrible for them, their is plenty of issues especially their but I also see a lot of (mostly young) people nowadays want to rid social security entirely and it makes me more sad and worried if things did get taken away because of the lack of understanding of what it is for.
I think people don't realize that social security is a safety net for everyone, like when you pay into it, it's available for you should you become disabled or elderly. That's what it's for. Unfortunately the people who do need it struggle to access it (it's a grueling process and a lot of people who qualify are denied), but the people who do manage to get it are usually much better off than they were before (i.e. not homeless or dead). So lots of people would suffer and die if we got rid of social security benefits. But I suppose the folks who want it gone don't care about that.
this video sums up why we all gonna die in the end if things don't change.
New fear added... ^^
This content should be exploding,
I received the notification AND it was in my recommendations. WOA!!! Is UA-cam finally realizing that you only want to do good things with your content??hi
Man... reminds me of when I worked for a nursing home. If you love your family, never trust them to Consulate Healthcare.
Yeeeeah scary scary as a chronically ill autistic individual. Terrified of what'll happen when my dad isnt around anymore...
I worked in a retirement home….I left initially because of the incident a year into Covid for my country…we had had Small cases of Covid 2-3 here and there but nothing to bad maybe a death out of those Maybe…then we get management who’s heading out the door…decides to listen to the isolation unit griping of “we pay for what we want and we should get it” which was. normal dishware. They were always quarantined before being allowed into the main building…management cut our safety budget. We assumed it was an excuse. But the I competence of them…we even started to by the safety ware for the kitchen. I was a dishwasher/dietary aide. We fought them on it for a month then they threatened us with a full termination…so we backed off…and that will Always haunt me that I never went to anyone above them or when the investigation happened that I never said anything. Then again we were also contracted to the retirement home so…but three of my friends who names I will Never forget. Are engraved in my mind. especially one in particular…his “end”…was what pushed me over the edge…when you mess up…like letting someone Unalive…just fess up right?…not this genius. They found them after being unalived for like 7 hours during the routine morning check…then proceeded to do Chest compressions..the chest caved breaking a few ribs…poor Kyle…this was his nickname and in my mind up till a month prior to his passing it’s all I knew him as…then I found out his actual name…so in my head I remember him as Kyle aka Name..thinking about them always brings a tear to my eye. I truly loved those 3. So if something Ever seems off. Get evidence. you may not be able to use it at that moment. But it could be a sword when they least expect it out of nowhere.
This just makes me think of my grandparents that i took care of with my mother. We had to take care of them and we had to figure it out on our own. Even when my grandpa was on hosipice it was like a lottery. Fortunately me or my mom was always there but the workers would be very mean verbally and physically to him even if we where standing right there. Fortunately for him after switching people a few times we found a very sweet staff woman that would come. She'd bring her quitar and play old songs for him to sing to. My grandmother wasnt so luck. The medical system failed her in many ways that i wont get into. When she was finally in hospice the people would just straight up not come. Fortunately she was never alone and family was always with her to help even though we had to figure it out on our own again. The night she passed away she had a burst of energy and then felt horrible right after. We called hospice to help. She died after an hour of waiting and they didnt show up until the next day. My mom, grandpa, and my grandmas sister had to sit next to her lifeless body waiting for hours. She died at 10pm, but they didnt actually get there and document it until 12am at the earliest. They weren't respectful to her corpse either.
That's unbelievably fucked up.
I always recommend report. Even if you feel your voice is nothing. Remember dates, names, times, places. Send an anonymous message to the rich people who show a fucked up kind of care for their ward. Report. I was a teacher for so long, just file the report. We get told constantly, if you don't, who will. They add up.
We have a family like that. Client is not.. Non-verbal. She shrieks though, and different shrieks have different meanings. By GOD do they pull their weight if she tells them, because anybody that's mean, she'll call them out. Sometimes she can add words into the shrieks, so she can really call folks out. Loves my brother to goddamn death though, always asks if he's gotten a burger (her idea of what a man should have, if you ask her), and requests to call him on the phone. On the pleasant end though, her folks recognize the good care she gets, and they always give recommendations to folks. Very sweet :)a
Thank you azeal .
Oh no
Love your videos
was there any attempt to record or document the events and bring to law enforcement or health and safety ?
God damn i was distracted by you fidgeting in the chair in the first few minutes of the video. 😂
This is really rough, I don't work in this industry, but I would have documented the necolect and the coverups and forwarded it to the News and agencies anonymous and blown the whistle.
Would it have gotten me in trouble, yes. But I would have snapped long before that and activly reported them to every agency and news outlet imaginable.
Yet another one of the reasons why people say capitalism has failed: a system ran on greed can't afford compassion.
listening to this further im REALLY starting to wonder if he worked at the living hell that i left, timeframe seems slightly off but very close otherwise as there were three separate houses under the control of the company i was under i wonder if the agency name Hope Estates sounds familiar to him?
This makes me so incredibly mad and sad just thinking about the dehumanization so rampant in society.
I love your vids they are so interesting
is there somewhere i can find the full song in your outro?
Covid time took a lot of (no disrespect) inexperienced and barely qualified people and made them step into large shoes. I know first hand how this was. A lot of us were not ready, maybe not even prepared to do what we had to do. If you are ever in a dark place, have nobody you can talk to. The national suicide hotlines can be an occasional resource. Just let them know you are not going to self harm, but that you are overwhelmed and just need a friendly voice for a couple of minutes. Oh and leave the building and call on your own phone.
Rage 🤬 is how hearing this makes me feel
I really dislike the phrase “bound to a wheelchair”. People who are disabled and wheelchair users also tend to because that wheelchair is the thing that lets them go out and do things. Without that wheelchair they’d be sitting down or be in bed all day. I really hope you’d put a caption correcting this kind of stuff next time be ause many people see being in a wheelchair as “being bound to it” or “a fate worse than death” which leads to the mistreatment and murder of wheelchair users which is very sad to see. Especially as someone who had a loved one and saw it firsthand; without that wheelchair he would have indeed been stuck in bed all day. The wheelchair gave him freedom.