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| Nursing home staff ordered to stop calling residents 'love' Staff at a Yorkshire nursing home are no longer allowed to call elderly residents love or sweetheart. Rotherham Health Authority says care workers should get written consent from residents if they want to use "terms of endearment". Managers at Swinton Lodge nursing home say it's political correctness gone mad. Matron, Eileen Johnson, said: "It is just natural for people around here to talk like that. I held a meeting with the residents and their relatives and they all think the rule is laughable. "It is so alien for us to be prim and proper. We do call residents by their names, but when you are sitting down with them or walking along a corridor, 'love' and 'sweetheart' just slip out." Rotherham Health Authority says it is trying to ensure older people are treated as individuals, reports the Daily Telegraph. Chris Stabler, director of performance management, said: "Many have lost their homes and possessions. If they start to lose their names as well there is nothing left." 2nd February 2002 |
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