Young disabled people living in rest homes

SHAME ON ACC what about those who are forced into care facilities???? Notice how the journalists WONT give readers an indepth view that is TRUTHFUL??? Yes NZ they actually force high needs persons into care facilitys rather than pay their carers. WHY so that they dont have to take responsibility for their actions they can do away with the hassel of a high needs client and off load them to another facility which means that they DONT have to modify their clients homes or pay to transport them to their rehab appointments.. Something to think about aye?

ACC is in for a damn good kicking through the courts very soon, Take my word as gospel!

This organization has ruined the lives of many good NZers,
and is about to pay for all past and present injustices.

According to today’s news, parents of severely handicapped adult children will very soon be entitled to state benefits putting them on the same footing as unrelated caregivers and rest homes. Reading between the lines this funding anomaly seems to lie at the heart of the problem. Now resolved, to the government’s chagrin, (they intend to mount an appeal) I anticipate more disabled rest-home residents will return home.

I guessed that I am not a surgeon with all the frills and my mother died of a brain injuries and I used work in rehaps for the brain injuries nursing the teens and the older age groups...
Deane you can always employ staff that meet the criteria..

Jan- it appears that you do not have an understanding of brain injury.

Elderly people in rest homes have different needs to young patience with CTBD(Chronic traumatic brain disease).

They need stimulus, rehabilitation, psychiatric counselling and mood control.

They also need motor neuron therapy, co-ordination therapy and social skills with their peers.

This cannot be offered by a rest home as the staffs have no skills in those areas.

Elderly residence at rest homes can be very depressing when they are in a vegetative state, and based on MOH reports on the general care offered by rest homes the care is generally substandard for elderly residence let along people suffering with brain injury.

People with CTBD can sometimes get frustrated and violent depending on what part of the brain has been injured.

Again, and I will stick to my original view, is that the government has acted inhumane by placing young people in aged persons facilities for care.

It is a disgrace, and I am sure the head injury association of New Zealand, New Zealand Institute of Neurologist and others would be up and arms over this entire incident.

The elderly have more knowledge and love to share there life experience and to communicates with the teens accompanied by a staff member..
The above mentioned is for the healthy elderly rest home and not the hospital wings other from that wait for the halfway houses..

you are a sad human being jan, where is the peer interaction for these people? they are stuck living their days with people 3 - 4 generations older.

All human species have mental illness example of you Dean a normal human being not only the mental ill went on killing rampage but the norms shoot to kill in our community and bashing policeman is not right..The mentally ill are intelligent example they often read your thoughts and your movement some are good and some are bad just like the norms..
Rest home for the mental illness is fine for the teens with good staffing..

"I thought we were over this" has hit the nail on the head here. This is shameful that this has been allowed to happen.

Where dos ones dignity go when you are at the hands of other people.

Indeed New Zealand has an appauling record of unreported human right violations, this is just the surface.

In god zone you are fine if you are fit and healthy. But once you are sick, it all goes to the perverbal, and suddenly you have no friends, or support what so ever.

This was the point to halfway homes or homes designed to look after chronically seek people.

Both Labour and National hacked at the public health and mental health systems in the 80's and 90's and threw all of these people including the mentally ill back into the community.

As a result some of the mentally ill went on killing rampages and innocent people died.

When will government learn that special facilities designed for both the sick and the mentally ill are a necessity.

Putting teenagers in rest homes, what a horrible practice... what do they have in common with the elderly other than their health?.