Family to remember great-grandmum in taser death probe
- A three-day inquest into the 2023 death of 95-year-old Clare Nowland concludes on Friday at the Queanbeyan Coroners Court, examining dementia training gaps for police and ambulance staff who responded to Yallambee Lodge.
- Then-Senior constable Kristian James Samuel White tasered Nowland on May 17, 2023, after being called to the Cooma facility where the 48kg great-grandmother with dementia refused to drop two steak knives.
- State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan heard responders could have contacted Nowland's daughter Lesley Lloyd for de-escalation help, while Paramedic Anna Hofner testified White's Taser deployment was "excessive."
- Only the Northern Territory Police Force has adopted a government-funded dementia training program for first responders, according to Dementia Training Australia executive director Isabelle Meyer.
- As the inquest concludes, Nowland's family hopes the proceedings will foster systemic changes in how first responders handle dementia-related aggression and prevent future incidents through improved clinical awareness.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Dementia training in spotlight of inquest into 95-year-old woman’s death
Dementia training of emergency services was in the spotlight at the inquest into the death of Clare Nowland, the 95-year-old great-grandmother who was Tasered by a police officer in 2023.
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The Canberra TimesPolice shun dementia training after woman's Taser death
Only one Australian police force has taken up an offer to train officers to deal with patients with dementia after a great-grandmother was fatally tasered in an aged care facility.Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his weapon at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023.The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, had taken two steak kni…
Cops open to dementia training after gran's Taser death in Cooma
More police could train about how to deal with patients with dementia after a great-grandmother was fatally tasered in an aged care facility. Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his weapon at 95-year-old Clare Nowland after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW on May 17, 2023. The 48kg great-grandmother, who had symptoms of dementia, had taken two steak knives from a kitchen area and refused t…
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