cares dont get enough praise (Carers)

Member Name: clairemarks

Product:	Carers
Date:	15/10/08 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: knowing that you are making a difference to peoples lives

Disadvantages: the pay and being and never seeing anything nice about care in the papers

I have worked in a care home for the past 10 years and I really do love my job. I have grown to love each individual residents for their own little ways and really do love my job.

I find it really horrible and upsetting that in the paper you only ever hear about the bad sides of the caring industry and never the good. I have only ever read about the elderly being abused in care homes and nothing I have ever read has been positive and apprising. Why isn't the nice things noticed? All the love and care we give our clients becomes un noticed to the public and we all seemed to be classed under the same category as "we all seem to abuse our residents" I really do think this is un fair and it would be lovely to see some praise in the papers for once and to be remembered for all the care and commitment that we apply to our work.

We get such poor money for the work we do. We have to work under very stressful circumstances and even deal with deaths but we still only usually get minimum wage. I think its terrible. The whole system is completely wrong. I really think its about time that us carers got a bit more recognition for the love and good quality of life we give our residents.

Summary: the life of a care worker