Retirement Living Where have all the wardens gone?
18/08/2008
In July last year, a 70-year-old sheltered housing resident fell in her sitting room and lay there for several days before she was spotted unconscious behind the sofa by neighbours. She wasn't wearing her emergency pendant. Tragically, she died of hypothermia the day after her arrival in hospital. The onsite warden at the home had been removed months earlier, following a cost-cutting shake-up of housing support.
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