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There seems to be no good way to keep abusers out of places that care for the disabled, elderly and infirm. Background checks aren't enough. Maybe there should be some sort of licensing requirement, although they're desperate enough for staff as it is (which is a big part of the problem).
Also staff are poorly paid and have to endure abusive situations. I dated someone who worked in a care home and she was constantly subjected to sexual and other assaults. But at the same time it's already prohibitively expensive to have to live in one.
I don't know what the solution is but I would prefer euthanasia to ever living in one (for myself — I'm not advocating killing anyone just because they are old)
Narcissists, psychopaths , sociopaths are drawn to places of influence and where there are vulnerable people.
Maybe. But let's not forget the gross incompetence of the police investigation and how commonplace that is, regardless of state or city.
Cruel generalizations are neat. It's like racism, but against the people who gave you that speeding ticket that one time.
They're going backwards in terms of requirements for caregivers. It's cheaper to defund large programs and hire people as individual direct supports regardless of their resume as long as they have a clean BCI. Those large programs slowly disappearing means the individual caregivers end up with less resources avalible to them too. There are plenty of brilliant Direct Support Professionals and other types of caregivers, just also a lot of not so great one's as well.
I propose that when abusers are found to have caused a wrongful death, they are put to death in a slow and painful way. For example we could feed them to ants.