If she was bed bound she should have been on a pressure mattress to start with. I agree with you that some care homes are appalling, I still remember a man we had referred to us as 'dementia - no medical needs' by another home. I suppose he didn't have medical needs if you ignored the bedsore on his lower back that was so large you could fit your fist in it. And they clearly had ignored it. I'd just like to reiterate though, not all care homes and nursing homes are appalling. Although as soon as we can find someone to buy either the business or the property Manchester will be down one of its final homes which will accept challenging behaviours. After 20 years my folks have decided its just not worth the fight anymore - the fight with social workers, the fight with inspectors who are straight out of college and have only ever seen an old person on paper, never in the flesh, the fight with the local authority and primary care trust to get the £60 000 we are owed and the fight to defend nursing homes against the never ending character assassination that goes on in the media. It's a shame because now 21 more elderly people with serious mental health problems are going to either be shoved in hospital beds where they will be drugged and ignored or bunged in an entirely unsuitable home where they will cause chaos and will end up drugged to keep them quiet but hey, those who are constantly trying to trip us up, catch us out, prove us wrong will be happy because they'll have achieved their aim - the closure of another of those capitalist monstrosities, a private nursing home. So well done them, I hope they'll feel a warm glow inside when they visit George and find he's been shoved in a side ward and is so doped up that he can't speak and doesn't know his own name.