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• Why global investors are piling into the UK’s luxury care home sector

  13-10-2022 22:00
  With people aged 65 and over controlling 51% of Britain’s wealth, the logic for investors is simple• Canadian owners of care homes avoided UK taxes, researchers claimWith a spa, cinema and wood-panelled hall, Reigate Grange in Surrey, where Ann King was abused, is part of a growing trend for luxury care homes. Fuelled by global investors’ desire to capitalise on older people’s property wealth, luxury care applies a cruise-ship sheen to the grittier reality of dementia and
  
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• Canadian owners of Signature care homes avoid UK taxes, researchers claim

  13-10-2022 18:02
  Firm owning chain where workers at one of its 36 homes were fired over abuse reportedly shifts profits offshoreSignature Senior Lifestyle may be Britain’s most expensive care home chain, say industry analysts. It operates 36 homes, mostly in the south-east of England around London, and is one of several UK private care chains bought in recent years by Revera Inc, a Canadian care company. Revera is, in turn, wholly owned by the pension fund for Canadian federal government workers, a C$230bn
  
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• ‘I will always hear her screams’: family tell of heartbreak over care home abuse

  13-10-2022 18:01
  Reigate Grange promised a ‘cruise ship’ lifestyle. Instead, a family’s hidden camera recorded harrowing abuseInstalling a hidden spy camera by their mother’s care home bed was not something Ann King’s children ever imagined would be necessary.When their 88-year-old mother faced worsening dementia, they considered a dozen care home options and carefully picked Reigate Grange, part of the Signature Senior Lifestyle chain. The Surrey property reminded King’s son,
  
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• ‘Abuse, no other word for it’: a nurse analyses Reigate care home footage

  13-10-2022 18:01
  Abuse of Ann King, an elderly resident, flies in face of every care work standard, expert saysHidden camera reveals abuse in luxury care homeJayne Easterbrook, a nurse for 42 years who specialises in training care workers, examined the footage of Ann King’s care at Reigate Grange in Surrey, and gave her reaction to the Guardian.King, 88, has dementia, and secret filming showed she was physically and mentally abused at the luxury care home that charged residents close to £100,000 a ye
  
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• Secret footage reveals abuse of woman with dementia at luxury UK care home

  13-10-2022 18:00
  Exclusive: Family of Ann King, 88, hid camera in room at Reigate Grange in Surrey amid concerns about her welfare• ‘Abuse, no other word for it’: nurse analyses footageAn 88-year-old woman with dementia was physically and mentally abused at a luxury care home charging residents close to £100,000 a year, the Guardian can reveal.Staff misconduct was exposed by secret filming inside the home run by Signature Senior Lifestyle, which operates 36 luxury facilities mostly in the
  
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• Hidden camera reveals abuse by care home staff of dementia patient Ann King – video

  13-10-2022 17:59
  When Ann King, 88, faced worsening dementia, her children considered a dozen care homes and carefully picked Reigate Grange, part of the Signature Senior Lifestyle chain, with annual fees close to £100,000.Within months, however, they began to worry their mother was being neglected as she began asking them if they were going to throw her out of bed, or the window. The family installed a covert camera on King's bedside table that revealed harrowing abuse. They have shared some of the footag
  
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