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Indian nurse Ramdai Singh has been found guilty of misconduct and kicked out of the profession after a series of scandalous incidents of neglect and mistreatment during her time as a care home manager.

The care home, Elmer Sands in Bognor Regis, had already hit the headlines back in 2006 when owners Ashraff and Khairool Jaddoo were struck off after details of a catalogue of neglect emerged.

Incidents included a 70 year old dementia sufferer who lost a staggering 11 stone in weight after being fed a starvation diet whilst lying in a urine soaked room, and another elderly woman who was left lying in her own faeces in a room which witnesses described as "nothing more than a kennel".

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This is the price our elderly pay for having their twilight years left in the hands of profit hungry, often foreign, managers who see dignity and care as far less important than making money.

We wouldn't leave a dog to be treated like this, but up and down the country the elderly are suffering every day, left to be little more than cash cows kept in filthy conditions, milked for every penny that they are worth.

As a nation we should be ashamed of a culture where the elderly are hidden away and forgotten, left to live out their latter years in squalor and filth. But, aside from a few headlines, nothing much happens, one isolated incident hits the papers, hundreds go unreported.

Even when those guilty of neglect are caught, nothing much is done. They've made their money, they've mistreated many, and then they just get a slap on the wrist and - if foreign - are still allowed to remain here in the UK. They win, the elderly victims just get to die in their own filth.

It seems that money matters, people don't - too often people become nothing more than figures on a spreadsheet, a source of profit and not a person who has a right to expect dignity and decent treatment.

What we have become as a nation is quite simply disgusting.