Saturday, January 30, 2010

How the aged and frail are exploited in Washington's adult family homes

"I'm a prisoner in my room," Alice Clayton, above, told her daughter. Clayton, paying $6,500 a month for care at an unlicensed adult family home in Northgate, had to stay in her bedroom from 6 p.m. to 10 a.m. because the caregiver considered the living room to be her own space in the evening.