Australia: Deaths in Perth nursing home underscore aged care crisis
Police are reportedly investigating the death, on April 6, of an 89-year-old female resident at Regis Healthcare Limited’s Nedlands Aged Care home in the Western Australian capital of Perth. The death followed those of two other residents in the past three months that were the subject of police investigation and reports of neglect and abuse.
One was 86-year-old Brian Hunter, who died on January 20. Two days before Christmas, according to an investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “7.30” program, he was discovered to have been left on the rooftop terrace of the nursing home, unsupervised, for nearly two hours in the middle of a heatwave where temperatures peaked at 40 degrees Celsius.
Family s legal bid after granny dies from rotted leg
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Family s legal bid after granny dies from rotted leg
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A devastated family are seeking answers after a grandmother s leg rotted to the bone while she was living at an aged care centre.
Norma Palmer, 89, was found in a pool of her own body fluids at Regis Birkdale, an aged care facility south of Brisbane, by a visiting enrolled nurse in July 2020.
The health worker observed Ms Palmer s sepsis leg injury and her red and bloodied back, which had been burned from lying in urine.
Ms Palmer was rushed to hospital after the enrolled nurse, from Care Pact, immediately called for urgent treatment.
The grandma died three days later at Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Family wants answers after granny left to rot to death
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