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Nursing home issues apology amid neglect and abuse claims An aged care facility has apologised after a woman claimed her father suffered devastating mistreatment in his final days.
Health by Natasha Bita
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Subscriber only A Noosa nursing home at the centre of a shocking abuse scandal has apologised to a grieving daughter who claims her father was neglected before his death. Michael Callil died in Noosa Hospital last June, aged 97, after a two-week respite at Japara Noosa, the Tewantin His daughter Christine Callil yesterday said the nursing home was short-staffed on weekends, with some residents forced to wait 45 minutes for help to go to the toilet.
An elderly man was bashed to death and another resident died of a morphine overdose at a nursing home of horrors, which removed call bells and denied critical medical care. Queensland s Coroner is investigating the death of a resident at the Japara Noosa nursing home on Queensland s Sunshine Coast. Government inspectors discovered multiple assaults between consumers, causing injury and death at the home and declared residents to be at immediate and severe risk . Incorrect morphine medication was given to one consumer (who) received three times the dose they were prescribed, inspectors from the federal government s Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) reveal in a new audit report which triggered an apology from Japara to residents and their families.