What Gene Hackman’s Death Can Teach Us About Elder Care

When the news broke that Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy, died in their home more than a week, maybe two, before anyone realized, the story haunted me — not because of the celebrity, but because it happens more often than we like to think.

As someone who works in healthcare and with an aging parent of my own, it hit close to home. Too close.

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