UK care home employed 80-year-old nurse who was not able to help lift residents

The 80-year-old’s role emerged when a resident with dementia, Josephine Coggins, 83, (pictured) suffered an unexplained head injury and later died. Photograph: Supplied

One of Britain’s biggest care home companies employed an 80-year-old senior nurse in a short-staffed care home who was older than some residents and not strong enough to help lift them.

HC-One employed the octogenarian at Tower Bridge Care Centre, which was found by inspectors to be “inadequate” and “not safe”, in a case that highlights a chronic shortage of care workers across the UK.