A joint investigation by VPR and uncovered inadequate care and staffing across Vermont鈥檚 eldercare facilities, deficiencies that ultimately led to indignities, injuries and at least five deaths.
We're talking to the reporters behind the series about the challenges faced by Vermont's assisted living and residential care homes.
VPR investigative reporter and Seven Days reporter , along with Seven Days data editor , combed through more than 12,000 pages of records and nearly 500 formal complaints of eldercare facilities in the state. And on the next Vermont Edition, Corwin and Brouwer will explain what these findings reveal about the eldercare needs and resources available in Vermont.
They'll also talk about the and ways the public can use the database, which was built by Suozzo of Seven Days.
Broadcast live on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
by 开云体育 Radio and into assisted living and residential care homes for the elderly. In addition to publishing stories over four weeks, we鈥檝e launched the Vermont Elder Care Navigator, a searchable database at .
It was produced by: at VPR, Emily Corwin, reporter, and Mark Davis, editor; and at Seven Days, Derek Brouwer, reporter, Andrea Suozzo, data editor, Matthew Roy and Candace Page, editors, and James Buck, photographer.
