Someone needs to be fired AND jailed for this! (Horrible way to die...)

[Archae]

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 Alzheimer’s 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 it’s immediately sad. But then, he goes, ‘It gets worse,’” Kylie Bearse said.

Lawrence Bearse, who had advanced Alzheimer’s, 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 doctor’s appointment Wednesday afternoon. He was found dead in the back of the facility’s 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]

1. So tragic. Nobody should die this way ...

[Ziggysmom]

2. It was over 100 degrees in Mesa AZ last week when this happened. That poor man!

A lawsuit won't undo this evil but I hope the family brings suit against the facility.

[Dial H For Hero]

3. The temperature inside the van was then likely to have been, what? 130 degrees? 140?

The responsible parties need to be serverly punished.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. That Sounds Right, Perhaps Low

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]

4. Omg!

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. Definitely

someone should be fired, charged, and jailed, just as they would be if it were a small child.

[demigoddess]

6. somebody should be charged. If you did this to a kid you would be.

[cayugafalls]

7. Insanely cruel way to die. Why is the driver not being arrested?

[wnylib]

8. Negligent homicide.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. I'd bet there's not a checklist for someone to sign off on

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]

10. Revoke the facility's license.

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]

11. I see a mssive

Lawsuit coming there way.. and criminal neglect.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Alzheimer's patients should be tracked electronically.

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]

14. My parents took care of my grandfather after he developed Alzheimer's ...

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]

15. My Uncle Don was like that too.

Physically strong, mentally he'd wander.

Fortunately his wife found a nursing home that was secure for him.

[marble falls]

16. My family is a throwback family, there were. at times. four generations living in the house ...

... there was no way papa was going to a home. About three months before he died, he was in a hospital.