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Kenosha Assisted Living Elopement Death: What a $4 Million Jury Verdict Means for Families Who Lost a Loved One in Memory Care If you are reading this because your mother, your father, your grandmother disappeared from a memory care facility and was found outside in the cold — or because you are watching someone you love decline in a facility that promised safety and delivered indifference — you are in the right place, and you are not alone in what you are feeling. The rage, the guilt, the question that runs on a loop at 3 a.m.: How could they not have known she was gone? We have spent our careers answering that question in courtrooms, and the answer is almost never a mystery. It is a staffing sheet with a hole in it. It is an alarm that went off and was ignored. It is a care plan that was never written. It is a corporation that knew about the problem and chose not to fix it. In December 2022, an 89-year-old memory care resident at Parkside Manor in Kenosha walked through a door that triggered an audible alarm at 12:41 a.m. The alarm was ignored for 28 minutes.…