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Kathleen Stenson 81 years young is callously being denied permission to return home to Ireland by Southern Cross Healthcare and she is effectively imprisoned and isolated in an appalling nursing home called, Court Care Centre, West Felton, Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 4LE.

Even worse the management of this dreadful place have placed her on starvation rations and denied her exercise or any program of mental or physical stimulation.

This is nursing home abuse and neglect of the elderly and there is alot more including punishments, blocking and censoring of her phone calls and harassment of visitors by the management.

The control freak manager Kim Wright went beserk when William lifted his mother out of bed at her request and let her sit in a wheel chair.

Wright had two cops escort William off the premises for  helping his mother out of bed!

This is an out of control paranoid management that needs to be brought to public accountability.

News reports of Southern Cross Healthcare human rights abuses have just broken on the internet.

By all accounts Mrs Stenson was very relieved to have been taken out of bed by her son and was very happy about it.

The management of this home pretend that they accede to the wishes of residents, and that they will help the patient get out of bed if the patient requests it.

But on this occasion as on so many others when Kathleen Stenson requested to get out of bed, the nursing staff just refused to help point blank.

Any compassionate person, never mind a loving son, would have responded in the same way and helped the lady get out of bed.

William found that she is as light as a feather weighing just eighty four pounds ( six stone), a huge drop from the one hundred and twenty six pounds she had been.

Apparently her food is presented to her in a most unappetising way, everything blended together into an ugly mush and in very small amounts.

As a result of all this the management have barred William from the premises!

This is an absolute repudiation by Kim Wright and Southern Cross Healthcare of residents’ rights in nursing homes.

It is up to Kathleen Stenson whether she wants to get up and mix with the other residents and this is what the management have said they encourage but in practice they deny and ignore her requests and pleas to get up out of bed and have a quality of life.

This makes it more likely that she will get depressed in that room on her own. It makes her want to mix less – and the ess you mix, the more depressed you get.

Your life isn’t over until it’s over – and you should live each day to the utmost – why should she be imprisoned in a lonely bed in a lonely room at The Court Care Centre?

It’s more important that she get’s more out of life than ever before.

This is the culture of death that various Christian leaders have spoken about, that is endemic in care and nursing homes and which the British public are so uneasy about as cited in the BBC poll in the article.

It is totally alien to the culture of life and this culture of death would explain why there is a rising death rate in Southern Cross Healthcare. 

The Times article says concerning Southern Cross Healthcare that”factors, when combined with higher than normal attrition rates of nursing residents, have resulted in lower than anticipated occupancy levels” and lower profits.

Why should Kathleen Stenson be condemned to death by being forced to stay in one of their establishments for another minute!

Read about this nightmare nursing home prison at www.SouthernCrossNursingHomes.com and see if you can help!