Family pleads for more staff after elderly mom dies in attack at Kamloops senior’s home

Family pleads for more staff after elderly mom dies in attack at Kamloops senior's home | iNFOnews.ca
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KAMLOOPS – For the third time in the past two years, the B.C. Coroners Service has declared a death at an Interior senior's facility a homicide.

Eighty-four-year-old Emily Houston died on July 15th, 10 days after she was attacked by a fellow resident of Kamloops Seniors Village.

Kamloops RCMP investigated, but decided against recommending charges.

Houston's daughter, Nancy Bradley, says the woman who hit her mother in the chest and pushed her into a metal door frame was suffering from dementia and simply wanted to return to her former room, which had been given to Bradley's mother.

Bradley is calling on senior's facilities across B.C. to increase staffing to prevent similar incidents.

Eighty-five-year-old Bill May died in 2013 after he was assaulted by his roommate at a Vernon residential care facility and just two months earlier an attack by a resident at the Overlander Extended Care in Kamloops killed 79-year-old Jack Shippobotham.

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2 responses

  1. LindaJim Jones

    This is far too often!How tragic for a family, when they are trying to make sure their loved ones are getting the best of care they can provide.If this could be prevented with more staff then the government needs to act.

  2. Susan Stanley

    My condolences go out to these families. I am a health care worker in facility and we all hope for more staff on daily bases. We need the government to step up

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