A coroner says care homes need better advice about window security after an 82-year-old man forced a locking mechanism and fell to his death
The coroner said Mr Taylor had absconded from a previous care home on a number of occasions via a fire exit and had been moved to another home. An inquest jury concluded Mr Taylor forced a window restrictor, climbed out of a first floor room and fell to the ground, sustaining injuries from which he died., Mr Morton wrote: "The evidence was clear. An 82-year-old man was able to apply sufficient force to detach the fixing which secured the window restrictor to the window frame. He was able to do so without the use of tools."
Mr Morton addressed his concerns to the Department of Health and Social Care , the Care Quality Commission and the British Standards Institute .