Image credit: Lake County Sheriff's Office
On Tuesday, WPEC news reported that Soebhagwatie Changoer, a caretaker at an assisted living facility in Clermont, Florida, was arrested last week after video footage caught her abusing a 94-year-old woman:
An arrest report says the woman told her son the caregiver was being too "rough with her." The son viewed the video footage and "discovered his mother was being abused by her caregiver." He reported what he saw to management at Crane's View Lodge Assisted Living and Memory Care.Changoer was suspended and the facility reported the incident to the Department of Children and Families and police. She's charged with abuse of an elderly person.
Abuse of long-term care recipients is a widespread problem. Statistics show that some 5 million people in nursing home care are abused each year — and that only 1 in 14 such incidents are ever reported.
