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An elderly stroke victim who died after suffering malnourishment and pressure sores experienced “significant failures” in basic care at a nursing home, an inquest has been told.
Bed or chair-bound Dorothea Hale, 75, died in hospital weeks after being admitted from the Grosvenor House nursing home in Abertillery, Monmouthshire.
On Wednesday, coroner Geraint Williams highlighted a number of failures by care staff during the mother-of-two’s four months at the home between July and November 2006.
But he said a lack of evidence that better care would have prolonged her life meant he could not record that her death in January 2007 was contributed to by neglect.
AN ELDERLY stroke victim who died after suffering malnourishment and pressure sores experienced “significant failures” in basic care at a nursing home, an inquest has been told. Bed or chair-bound Dorothea Hale, 75, died in hospital weeks after being admitted from the Grosvenor House nursing home in Abertillery. On Wednesday, coroner Geraint Williams highlighted a number of failures by care staff during the mother-of-two’s four months at the home between July and November 2006.
READ MORE: But he said a lack of evidence that better care would have prolonged her life meant he could not record that her death in January 2007 was contributed to by neglect.
Elderly woman died of malnourishment and pressure sores after four-month stay at nursing home
Dorothea Hale, 75, died after a four-month stay at Grosvenor House nursing home in Abertillery, Monmouthshire
Dorothea Hale who died in hospital weeks after being admitted from the Grosvenor House nursing home in Abertillery, Monmouthshire (Image: PA)
An elderly stroke victim who died after suffering malnourishment and pressure sores experienced significant failures in basic care at a nursing home, an inquest has been told.
Dorothea Hale, 75, who was confined to a bed or a chair, died in hospital weeks after being admitted from the Grosvenor House nursing home in Abertillery, Monmouthshire.