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After receiving dishwashing liquid in place of grape juice, an elderly woman residing in a nursing home passes away.

Elderly woman living in senior home dies after she was served dishwashing liquid as grape juice

According to the California senior citizens home where she resided, a dementia patient passed away after receiving dishwashing liquid instead of juice.

 

Three residents of the Atria Park Senior Living Facility in San Mateo were taken to the hospital right away after drinking the caustic liquid, and Gertrude Elizabeth Murison Maxwell was one of them.

Elderly woman living in senior home dies after she was served dishwashing liquid as grape juice

 

The employees involved have been suspended as the home investigates internally and cooperates with local authorities, the facility said.

 

Atria said in a statement to KRON-TV: “We have been working with local authorities, who have informed us that one resident passed away. Our sincerest condolences are with the family.”

 

One source told NBC Bay Area the dishwashing liquid might have been confused with grape juice.

 

“There may have been a mistake,’” the source involved in the investigation told the local NBC affiliate. “A jug of grape juice is what somebody thought they had picked up and poured into glasses, but it was some sort of cleaning fluid.”

 

Elderly woman living in senior home dies after she was served dishwashing liquid as grape juice

 

The victim’s daughter, Marcia Cutchin, told the local television station that the senior home told her family the substance given to her mother was an “alkaline cleaning solution that eats protein.”

 

Maxwell suffers from dementia and was not able to feed herself, Cutchin said.

 

She added that when her mother arrived at the hospital, she had “severe blistering of her mouth and throat and esophagus”.

 

“Many people, like my mother, you have to hold a cup to her mouth and tip it into her mouth,” Cutchin told KRON-TV.

 

The television station reported San Mateo Police were investigating and had no additional information.

 

Maxwell is survived by eight children and 20 grandchildren.

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