Racism still living freely in elderly...

[mandykal]

Have you witness a resident verbally discriminating a coworker? How pathetic that its still lives in the minds of our elderly.

[CHATSDALE]

we have a nurse that whenever there is an altercation between white and black she will write on incidient report that the white person uses the N-word and mnagement believe her.....She has been a facility a long time and they believe anything and everything she puts down

[Energizer Bunny]

This thread would be why I don't want to work in LTC.

[Truly_Blessed]

CNM2B said:

This thread would be why I don't want to work in LTC.

I second that.

[obeyacts2]

I had an elderly Alz lady who would go ballistic if the agency would send anybody black or dark skinned. It stumped the family for along time becuase this lady was never like that when young, lived/worked in a interracial setting, etc. It turned out that at one time she had a caregiver who had been abusive to her. Well to a Alz damaged mind, anybody who looked like that caregiver was the enemy. So, maybe with the more confused/demented residents this may be part of what is going on. Beyond that, I never have had any of my pts say overtly racist things.

Laura