Rome, 30 January (LaPresse) – The Carabinieri of the NAS (Food and Health Unit) in Rome have carried out seven precautionary measures in the Castelli Romani area – six of which involve disqualification from practising their profession and one involving a residence ban – against seven social and health workers and the legal representative of a care home for the elderly in Grottaferrata. Due to the seriousness of the facts, the Public Prosecutor's Office had requested house arrest. It all started with a complaint from a family member of an elderly resident of the residential community. From there, the Capital's Anti-Adulteration and Health Unit gathered evidence of repeated mistreatment and persistent harassment of the elderly. According to the prosecution's hypothesis, the social care workers – who were insufficient in number to meet the needs – engaged in routine conduct and took advantage of the lack of any form of supervision of their employees by the facility manager to engage in conduct that was detrimental to the physical and mental integrity of those in their care, leaving them in a general climate of harassment and indifference to their basic needs. The NAS investigation found that the elderly, in addition to being the target of insults, were left in their beds for entire nights, wet with their own urine and sedated with drugs and sleeping pills not prescribed by doctors, or subjected to the use of unauthorised restraints. The serious evidence gathered by the NAS Carabinieri allowed the judicial authorities to issue today's precautionary measure against six social care workers and the manager of the residential care home for the elderly. A further five notices of conclusion of investigations were served on five other suspects for the same offences.