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ZERTErYNOthe

(243 posts)
Thu Dec 21, 2023, 05:37 PM Dec 2023

WaPo: 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 America’s booming assisted-living industry.

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WaPo: DOZENS OF ASSISTED-LIVING RESIDENTS DIED AFTER WANDERING AWAY UNNOTICED (Original Post) ZERTErYNOthe Dec 2023 OP
Omg. Lock the doors. Put alerts on the doors Demovictory9 Dec 2023 #1
I got a friend a bracelet with our phone numbers on it. keithbvadu2 Dec 2023 #2
The last time we visited my mom someone was trying to wander AZSkiffyGeek Dec 2023 #3
Thank you for sharing this choie Dec 2023 #4

Demovictory9

(33,752 posts)
1. Omg. Lock the doors. Put alerts on the doors
Thu Dec 21, 2023, 05:57 PM
Dec 2023

That said
.in my family..we twice had dementia suffering family members wander away

Got them back safely though

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,598 posts)
3. The last time we visited my mom someone was trying to wander
Thu Dec 21, 2023, 06:51 PM
Dec 2023

The staff found the secure door wasn’t 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

(4,478 posts)
4. Thank you for sharing this
Fri Dec 22, 2023, 12:23 AM
Dec 2023

Again institutions run by for profit entities fail with deadlly consequences

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