EDITH Bush looks the picture of health as she smiles for the camera in June 2012, despite suffering from the early stages of dementia.
But another photograph of her, taken just five months later, after she was admitted to four care homes, paints an entirely different picture.
The 77-year-old has now been at eight different homes since June 2012, all of which her daughter Tina Tuck says have contributed to a rapid deterioration of her health with neglect, rough handling and medication mix-ups.
"My mother lost weight, she was found to be dehydrated, with sepsis, weight-loss and her mouth was full of thrush," said Tina, 54, from Basildon, who felt compelled to tell her story after watching the Panorama show.
"I witnessed poor manual handling, grab and lift tactics were being used, which is when they grab the back of a patient's trousers a drag them up to their feet, when a hoist should be used to transfer patients from a chair to a wheelchair.
"I saw the home manager pouring a mixture of porridge, milk, nutritional drink and medications in a beaker down my mother's throat, even though she was only semi-awake.
"One home would not phone an ambulance and I had to do it as they believed she was not ill.
"An ambulance took my mother into hospital, where she was given two litres of fluids, antibiotics, and reports were taken, but my mother had layers of her own excrement in her groin area. They also reported pressure sores that had been badly dressed."
The great-grandmother was diagnosed with early onset dementia when she was 68 and since June 2012 has moved to eight different care homes around the county.
On one occasion a care home even refused to admit Mrs Bush because her daughter had complained about previous care homes.
And she was even left on a bed in a hallway severely dehydrated, claims Tina who says she was told by a paramedic that her mother was dying.
It was only when she was admitted to Basildon General Hospital that Mrs Bush began to show improvement.
Tina, who is still searching for a suitable home, added: "If care homes cared for people properly it would take a lot of pressure off the NHS.
"There needs to be a complete change in the way care homes operate. I believe, they don't want residents to stay very long, they don't get encouraged to eat or drink, it's a form of euthanasia."
