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The driver should be tracked down, and spend the rest of his or her life in jail for this.
Man, 90, found dead after being left in van outside Ariz. assisted living facility
MESA, Ariz. (KPHO/KTVK) - The family of a 90-year-old Arizona man with Alzheimers is demanding answers after he was found dead in a transport van outside his assisted living facility. His family believes he was left in the van for nearly 20 hours before anyone even realized he was missing.
Kylie Bearse got an unexpected call from her dad Thursday morning, telling her her 90-year-old grandfather, Lawrence Bearse, had died.
He said Grandpy passed away, and its immediately sad. But then, he goes, It gets worse, Kylie Bearse said.
Lawrence Bearse, who had advanced Alzheimers, had been living in the Canyon Winds Assisted Living & Memory Care facility in Mesa, Arizona, since June 2020. His wife of 67 years went to visit him Thursday, but nobody could find him, according to Kylie Bearse.
After retracing his day, they recalled Lawrence Bearse had gone to a doctors appointment Wednesday afternoon. He was found dead in the back of the facilitys transport van.
Family members believe he was left outside in the van for 20 hours.
https://www.wbay.com/2021/07/25/man-90-found-dead-after-being-left-van-outside-ariz-assisted-living-facility/
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,408 posts)A lawsuit won't undo this evil but I hope the family brings suit against the facility.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)The responsible parties need to be serverly punished.
ProfessorGAC
(65,068 posts)I've seen values reported as high as 170.
130 is about the minimum.
A dark car not protected by shade could get incredibly hot.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(9,983 posts)someone should be fired, charged, and jailed, just as they would be if it were a small child.
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)wnylib
(21,485 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,177 posts)in other words, not a paper trail to account for riders, and someone to initial each pickup or dropoff.
As tragic as this is, and it is considerably horrible if not evil, I'd initially suspect that someone just forgot.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Don't they do an evening bed check of their residents? Wasn't Mr Bearse on medication? There should have been some kind of check on why he didn't take his meds. Or did they just sign it off?
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)Lawsuit coming there way.. and criminal neglect.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)We have the tech to do it, and it would be a modest expenditure for a facility to have a system that would track and alert if a person is not where they should be.
Would also help in home care situations. Patients have a compulsion to walk and get lost easily.
marble falls
(57,102 posts)It is incredible what it took to keep my still physically strong grandfather safe. Alarms on doors, security screens that had to be opened by key, child locks on cabinets.
There was a terrible failing, and it can be prevented from happening again.
I sure can understand how this might have happened.
I can remember the twice I accidentally left my grandfather out and he "went for a walk". It took a half hour or more to get him back to the house, walking him a circuitous route.
No one should get away with anything: there was a failure that killed someone.
Archae
(46,335 posts)Physically strong, mentally he'd wander.
Fortunately his wife found a nursing home that was secure for him.
marble falls
(57,102 posts)... there was no way papa was going to a home. About three months before he died, he was in a hospital.