Family awarded $110M following death of 100-year-old grandmother left wandering outside her senior care facility

Source: New York Post

The family of a 100-year-old lady with Alzheimer’s who died of hypothermia after she wandered out of her nursing home, only to have an automatic door locked behind her, was awarded $110 million by a jury Tuesday. Mildred Hernandez died alone in the cold after wandering out into 38 degree weather from Greenhaven Estates in Sacramento where she lived for over five years. Just two days before Valentines Day 2019 shortly before 6:00 a.