Elderly loved-ones were left incontinent and immobile after suffering inappropriate care in NHS hospitals

 MoS readers reveal how elderly loved-ones were left incontinent and immobile after suffering inappropriate care in NHS hospitals - leaving families with care costs over £6,000 a month

• SPECIAL REPORT: Readers tell how loved-ones had poor care after MoS report
• Families forced to spend over £6k a month after elderly relatives left incontinent
• Wife said husband, 75, with Parkinson's, can't stand, toilet or eat after hospital
• Geriatrician Prof Rowan Harwood said older people are kept worse than animals

• Families claim they are forced to spend more than £6,000 a month in care costs as inept hospital care has left loved-ones immobile and incontinent.

  Relatives say that previously independent family members have had to engage full-time support, even following a short inpatient stay for a minor problem – such as vertigo or a urinary tract infection.

  One woman described how her 75-year-old husband, who has Parkinson's disease, was unable to stand, go to the toilet, communicate or even feed himself after a five-week stretch on a ward. Before he was admitted, he was attending to all his own physical needs, walked more than a mile a day and was capable of driving a car.

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