Graeme Sutherland

[Rolandtherat]

I hate folk being exploited and feel sorry for poor Linda but I'm guilty of laughing at videos of a woman with dementia, page called dementia nan she cracks me up reminds me of my gran who had dementia.so I'm a hypocrite I hope this new care home stop him exploiting the poor woman though!

 

[DeeDeeMcFarlaneXXX]

His eyebrows gee me the fear
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He’s going to look like former Labour MP Denis Healey when he’s older

 

[Cass_25]

Maybe so, however she has lost the ability consent now & he still exploits her.

 

[mutleypaws]

Also remembering quitting his job because of his depression. Surely if your MH was that bad the last thing you would think of doing would be an ad featuring your mum in a care home.

 

[Buddy1877]

I used to like Graeme at first when he was first raising awareness and always spoke well in interviews and stuff. But with anyone I think social media goes to their head. I never saw him doing an advert for a care product, that is wrong and surely he can see that. I'm sure the care home must be fairly local to me but I think they've done the right thing by saying look enough is enough. As others have said you can still raise awareness, share your experiences etc but without showing poor Linda all the time.

Focus on taking her on her wee days out and spending that quality time with her.

 

[Cass_25]

The waterwipe advert is still on his TikTok it’s fairly recent, it looks like he’s deliberately put her food on her face so he can wipe it off for the ad

 

[supers0nic]

I've not saw him pop up in a long time but I remember seeing a tiktok he done a good while back saying he won't be posting much about his mum anymore due to her condition worsening so I wonder what changed. Saying you're raising awareness but making money from it isn't raising awareness at all it's exploiting your vulnerable mother by using her as an advertisement and benefiting from it.

 

[puddingbear]

I’ve had 2 family members pass with Alzheimer’s & whilst I really really sympathise. I just looked up the water wipe ad & it made me a little upset. I know he means no harm at all but surely better ways to advertise them

 

[Spanor511]

Also remembering quitting his job because of his depression. Surely if your MH was that bad the last thing you would think of doing would be an ad featuring your mum in a care home.

Hope he’s been declaring the income. I take it he’s on the pip now like the rest of the Begs.

 

[Cass_25]

I mind he put a tiktok up a while back of his mum extremely distressed. He said in it he was showing the reality of Alzheimer’s. It’s no wonder social work stepped in. I really hope Linda is protected from him in her new care home . What is he going to do just move her from place to place until he finds somewhere that the staff are sound with the vulnerable being exploited for cash .

 

[ayeayecaptain]

Will just add my previous post from the other thread which inspired this here

 

[ayeayecaptain]

I would imagine the social care dept at GCC would have had to liaise with whatever area they moved her to as you can’t just move people unless you have mega bucks paying for it yourself and from what I can gather in this area of Scotland is still near bloody impossible without being on a waiting list for ages.
He most certainly should not be using her for adverts.
Also I do not buy that he struggled to find legal advice cos no one deals with it. When I did it, it was very clearly defined welfare POA put in place by the person when they still have capacity and guardianship is when you have to apply after or because they lose capacity and is a nightmare to get. I am wondering if GCC tried to have the POA overturned and get guardianship themselves - this is something I only learned recently that social care can take guardianship of people who have not got a POA in place if required.
It’s a subject close to my heart hence why I am going on about it so much

 

[puddingbear]

I’m watched this tossed greetin about hard done to he was on a live the other night and when answering a question he said how his mum has no problems with being able to eat. Aye well just proves the point he put all the food down his Mum’s front for that advert. Guy is a disgrace.

This is it exactly for me, I think nowadays the lines with these People are so blurred between awareness & exploitation.

 

[ayeayecaptain]

Plenty of solicitors in Glasgow do this type of work. As the poster below daud he maybe struggled to get a solicitor because of the nature of what he was doing!

Exactly - he’s an idiot. Even a quick Google search provides an accurate answer which disproves his rubbish.
His mother was no more than a bloody prop in that Water Wipes ad.
What is scary also is the amount of idiots in the claiming to be care professionals agreeing with him in the comments.
There was a court case about a woman with dementia being used by her family in TikTok’s. They were from Kilwinning - I don’t know the outcome but I remember blocking them as I thought they were a disgrace first time I saw them.

 

[Bigbird2]

Graeme is a Scottish man who cares for his mum Linda, who has advanced Alzheimer's. He's recently been told by social work not to share his mum on social media anymore, as he was featuring her in adverts which invaded her privacy and showed her in some vulnerable situations.

What do you all think? Is Graeme right or is he wrong? Have at it!

Completely wrong. His mum has no capacity and can’t consent to being on social media. It’s gone beyond raising awareness of her condition

 

[evie1975]

And of course an ADHD diagnosis.

We need an eye roll reaction on Tattle.

 

[Anonymous_Daisy]

Seen a post from Graeme on his Facebook a few days ago, looks like he might end up having permission to start posting his mum again. I completely understand that he wants to raise awareness about Alzheimer's but he's going about doing it the wrong way.

 

[ayeayecaptain]

It’s no different if you were mistreating your child doesn’t matter that you are their parent it doesn’t give you the right to do it and you would be investigated.
I know the wording for a Welfare POA as I have been entrusted by a relative in the past.
Not only is he abusing his Mum’s situation he’s also exploiting the wording in to justify doing it. Perhaps it should be updated when it comes to social media if it hasn’t been already.

 

[Spanor511]

Do you know what bugs me - care home spaces are like hen’s teeth in the west coast of Scotland - I would like to know how he managed to get her moved to a home in another local authority when people are lying in hospitals jamming up beds through no fault of their own waiting for someone else to die for their space. That means a person in that area was put further down the list to accommodate his mother cos of his carry on.

Probably blamed his own ‘mental health’. You know what these begs are like.

 

[Bigbird2]

I would imagine the social care dept at GCC would have had to liaise with whatever area they moved her to as you can’t just move people unless you have mega bucks paying for it yourself and from what I can gather in this area of Scotland is still near bloody impossible without being on a waiting list for ages.
He most certainly should not be using her for adverts.
Also I do not buy that he struggled to find legal advice cos no one deals with it. When I did it, it was very clearly defined welfare POA put in place by the person when they still have capacity and guardianship is when you have to apply after or because they lose capacity and is a nightmare to get. I am wondering if GCC tried to have the POA overturned and get guardianship themselves - this is something I only learned recently that social care can take guardianship of people who have not got a POA in place if required.
It’s a subject close to my heart hence why I am going on about it so much

Plenty of solicitors in Glasgow do this type of work. As the poster below daud he maybe struggled to get a solicitor because of the nature of what he was doing!