WaPo: DOZENS OF ASSISTED-LIVING RESIDENTS DIED AFTER WANDERING AWAY UNNOTICED [View all]

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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.