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Just what is wrong with five-star care for elderly?
• THE article regarding Cheverton Lodge Nursing Home (Troubling death of patient at care home that’s like an upmarket hotel, December 14) is itself troubling.
For some reason you seem to be out to damage the reputation of an excellent establishment. I know this as I have an elderly relation who is a resident there and has been for nearly three years.
The staff are without exception of the highest calibre. The care and dignity they give to the residents is impartial and quite exceptional. You seem to have a problem with the fact that the conditions in the home may seem like a five-star hotel. And what is wrong with that? Does not everyone want the very best for their elderly and infirmed family members?
Incidentally, the hair salon you mention that the home has is, in fact, an office used one day a week for residents to have their hair done. You also mention coq au vin, as if to say the elderly should not be getting the best food possible. In fact, I have never seen coq au vin on the menu. Fish and chips, yes.
The tragic death of John Jackson is, of course, very sad. But please don’t think this means Cheverton Lodge is an unfit place for the elderly to be, or that the staff are untrained and uncaring.
From the management to the cleaners, it is a home with the very highest of standards and care.
I for one sleep well knowing my relative is being looked after by a wonderful professional group of caring people.
The elderly who may have been through much in their lives deserve a top level of care. At Cheverton Lodge they get it.
STEPHEN SPENCER
N1
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