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The Guardian - AU
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Jordyn Beazley and Josh Butler

Review needed of police deployment to aged care after 95-year-old woman Tasered, says age discrimination commissioner

Police David Shoebridge Discrimination Clare Nowland New South Wales Mental Health Greens
Clare Nowland, 95, an elderly woman with silver-white hair wearing a light blue collared shirt, who is in a critical condition after police used a Taser on her during an incident at an aged care facility in Cooma
Clare Nowland, 95, who is in a critical condition after she was Tasered by police during an incident at an aged care facility in Cooma last week Photograph: supplied

The age discrimination commissioner has said the deployment of police officers to respond to incidents in aged care homes should be reviewed after the Tasering of 95-year-old Claire Nowland.

Nowland, who weighs 43kg and lives with dementia, was Tasered by police after she was found armed with a steak knife in her home at an aged care facility in Cooma. She is in end-of-life care at Cooma district hospital after the incident caused her to fall and sustain life-threatening head injuries.

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