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Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested the board member of a company operating a nursing home in Sosa City on suspicion of assaulting a 91-year-old female resident.
Police said Aiko Suzuki, 68, who was arrested on Monday, has denied the charge, Sankei Shimbun reported. Suzuki is accused of punching the left arm of the woman at around 7:35 a.m. on Monday inside the assisted living facility that provides home-care services.
According to police, a city official visited Sosa Police Station at around 10 a.m. to report that Suzuki appeared to be abusing the elderly tenants at the nursing home.
Officers accompanied the city official to the facility and discovered the injured 91-year-old resident, which led to the suspect's arrest.
In addition to being a board member, Suzuki was taking care of nursing home residents on a daily basis.
© Japan Today
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Mark
Again?!?
Watanabe Cristina Atena
I work in care house and some Japanese staff are simply not patient with elders. They don’t abuse them by hitting them but they rush them with their food. To be honest, at this lower salary, younger people do not rush to work in such a place. It’s hard work and not pleasant at all. With not enough staff around, for one person to change a diaper and wash intimate parts for an person who maybe is paralyzed or has dementia, it’s very heavy job and the pain on spinal bones is not shared with anyone. Loosing temper in such a place, it’s easy as most of Japanese people have some mental problems and they get easy in depression and violent behavior. If this facilities would pay higher salaries, maybe younger people would be motivated to to this type of job. Old people working as staff, is not recommended it but yet they are the only who’s willing to do it for ¥1000 /h or less ..
oldman_13
Sadly I do think a lot of people who do these jobs are simply not fit mentally or physically to deal with the elderly people. And it's hardly unique to Japan, abuse of elderly in nursing homes is a worldwide epidemic.
Sal Affist
I'm sure she will eventually claim it was an accident, that she bumped the woman and that caused the bruise. If there are no videos and she doesn't confess to striking the woman, Ms. Suzuki will not be indicted by the prosecutors.