The story behind Regis Nedlands shocking failures to meet basic aged care standards
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Dik, Brian and Vera s families paid top dollar for them to live at a lovely nursing home, but damning reports from the aged care regulator and allegations by a group of trainee nurses tell another story.
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It was two days before Christmas last year when Lea Hammond received a call from her father s nursing home in Perth saying an ambulance was taking him to hospital. There was a heatwave that day, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius.