I agree! We also employ 16 year olds. I could’ve sworn you had to be 18 to admin meds butI was working in a nursing home from the age of 16. This was when we lifted patients manually..no hoists etc. Even the beds had a foot pedal not electric and there were what we called monkey bars for them to grab!
When I look back I was so young to be doing that role... Finding people passed awayand dealing with commodes and pads! Never forgot old Joebwho pinched your bum if your back was turned! We were called Nursing Auxiliaries then!
God i feel old all of a sudden. I guess I found my vocation from that role.
Back and neck are fed amongst other stuff.
I will see myself out to the 'old people's home'...byeeee
they doing it anyway. It’s a hard job you need common sense, mental strength, physical strength, confidence etc which not a lot of teenagers have developed at that point. I lost one of my ladies in feb at an amazing age of 96, having to go into her looking unrecognisable and watching her die was just heartbreaking I nearly packed in there and then. I’m too emotional for this s! I went to her funeral and got a special shout-out from her family for becoming her friend 
her family gave me some money as a thank you, I went and bought a cross and chain necklace to remember her by. I’m still wearing it now, there’s positives and negatives to this kind of job. But hey, I’ve never done an old man’s shopping for them in m&s so, I don’t think I’ll be welcomed into the pearly gates in the sky just yet
