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Businessman Sir Gerry Robinson returns in a new series in which he tries to turn around three struggling care homes. In the next twenty years over a million Britons will have dementia, and sufferer...s are likely to end up in one of the country's privately run care homes. It's a huge business worth six billion pounds, largely paid for by taxation, yet a great deal of the care is woefully inadequate. Can Gerry, whose father had the disease when he died, change a culture of stagnant lounges, a lack of specialist training among staff, and a focus on keeping people alive rather than helping them to live a happy life?
Businessman Sir Gerry Robinson returns in a new series in which he tries to turn around three struggling care homes. In the next twenty years over a million Britons will have dementia, and sufferer...s are likely to end up in one of the country's privately run care homes. It's a huge business worth six billion pounds, largely paid for by taxation, yet a great deal of the care is woefully inadequate. Can Gerry, whose father had the disease when he died, change a culture of stagnant lounges, a lack of specialist training among staff, and a focus on keeping people alive rather than helping them to live a happy life?
| Series: | Can Gerry Robinson fix dementia care homes? |
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| Episode | 1 |
| First transmission date: | 08-12-2009 |
| Original broadcast channel: | 8-12-2009 |
| Published: | 2009 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:41 |
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| Producer: | Emma De'ath |
| Contributor: | Gerry Robinson |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/dementia/index.html |
| Keyword(s): | Merevale House, Warwickshire; Summerleigh Cedars, Devon; Thornfield Care Home, Devon; Woodland House, Torbay |
| Subject terms: | Senile dementia--Patients--Care--Great Britain; Robinson, Gerry, 1948- |
| Production number: | FKAH441P |
| Videofinder number: | 81588 |
| Available to public: | no |
