The Dark Reality of Care Facilities

โ€œSociety at large doesnโ€™t think a huge amount about carers, until they need carers.โ€ Carers are the backbone of the social welfare system, providing mental, physical and emotional assistance to extremely vulnerable people, such as those with dementia or severe autism. Theyโ€™re often paid minimum wage to face excrement, physical resistance and even death on a regular basis, with little emotional support. In this episode of Informer, we meet a former carer who explains how a lack of funding and major understaffing fails everyone, and leaves the industry open to abuse.