There have been a lot of complaints about the Chanticleer Home, a care facility for the elderly, since 2005. In fact there have been more than 100, including accounts of one resident wandering away and another denied medical care. Based on these complaints, a judge has ordered the facility shut down, but the families of the seniors—and the seniors themselves—aren’t taking it lightly.
There have been a lot of complaints about the Chanticleer Home, a care facility for the elderly, since 2005. In fact there have been more than 100, including accounts of one resident wandering away and another denied medical care. Based on these complaints, a judge has ordered the facility shut down, but the families of the seniors—and the seniors themselves—aren’t taking it lightly.
“I am not going anywhere. I am staying here you have to carry me out,” says resident Birute Mikelionis. “The care is very good. I have no complaints,” says another resident, Don Stewards. The fact is that the seniors are worried about where they will go if the facility is shut down.
The real concern is that under the current economic climate, few facilities will be able to absorb the residents of the Chanticleer Home, and the families of the people living there will have to hire private care or give up their jobs to assist the soon-to-be displaced seniors, most of whom require assisted living or more.
Lizelda Lopez of the state Department of Social Services warns that Chanticleer is just the beginning as well. The state is investigating Sunshine Villa, another local home for the elderly, after a patient with dementia wandered off. She was found 10 miles away, dead, four days later. Read more at Mercury News and KION.
