VANCOUVER – A 93-year-old man suffering from dementia has died after being severely beaten by another dementia patient.
It all happened inside a long-term care facility in Salmon Arm called Bastion Place.
The attack happened in the morning on Oct. 3.
Ninety-three-year-old John Young wandered into the room of another dementia patient who had been flagged as violent. Young was attacked and while both men were taken to hospital, Young died four days later.
The Interior Health Authority, RCMP and the coroners service are now conducting an investigation but the BC Nurses Union says attacks such as this one in a long-term care facility are becoming more common.
“They’re put into our long-term care facilities with not adequate staffing,” says Tracy Quewezance from the union. “Not secure enough areas or not enough secure bed areas.”
The Interior Health Authority was not able to say how many staff were at the facility the morning of the attack.
This is also not the first time Bastion Place has been in the news for having inadequate staffing levels.
– With files from CFJC News
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