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How to ask the right questions about senior living centers

SEATTLE — The woman who identified herself as a nurse then refused to give a dying woman CPR at a senior living center in California is not being charged with a crime, even as audio of the event makes its way around the news channels.

But the 87-year-old woman’s death, and whether it could have been prevented with the recommended CPR, is raising a whole lot of questions.

Pete Jelinek with Senior Helpers, a group that provides in-home senior care, talks about the important questions families should ask before moving a loved-one into a senior living center.

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