Children of Regis aged care facility residents who died speak out about ‘culture of neglect’

A wound on the left heel of Yvonne Buters’ 91-year-old father ultimately killed him.

It took staff at Regis Nedlands aged care facility five days to check the injury, which developed into a necrotic foot ulcer and saw Henk Niemen die of septicaemia in hospital in February 2017 aged 91.

Henk’s wife, Rose, had died four months earlier after four nights of falling out of bed.

She died sitting in a chair next to her husband in the room they shared at the aged care home.

Ms Buters believes a…