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Related: About this forumWaPo: DOZENS OF ASSISTED-LIVING RESIDENTS DIED AFTER WANDERING AWAY UNNOTICED
This article from Washington Post is linked below without paywall. I am fortunate that my father is in a secure memory care facility. Not everyone is is lucky. This is a heartbreaking.
https://wapo.st/3NBaBjG
DOZENS OF ASSISTED-LIVING RESIDENTS DIED AFTER WANDERING AWAY UNNOTICED
Since 2018, more than 2,000 people have wandered away from assisted-living and memory-care facilities unnoticed or been left unattended for hours outside. Nearly 100 have died, and state inspectors frequently found evidence of neglect.
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Memory Inc.
Patients with memory problems walk away from assisted-living facilities just about every day in America; many die. The Post examines a pattern of neglect in Americas booming assisted-living industry.
Demovictory9
(33,542 posts)That said
.in my family..we twice had dementia suffering family members wander away
Got them back safely though
keithbvadu2
(39,829 posts)She's not wandering... yet.
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,518 posts)The staff found the secure door wasnt locking and it became all hands on deck trying to shoo the one lady away from the exit while they got maintenance in to fix it.
choie
(4,398 posts)Again institutions run by for profit entities fail with deadlly consequences