The inquest heard Mrs Hale was diagnosed with a heart condition and underwent surgery in March 2006. She later suffered two strokes, which left her paralysed down her left side, and needing full-time nursing care. Mrs Hale had a peg tube feeding system fitted as she had difficulty swallowing and in July she moved into Grosvenor House. Notes made by nursing staff at the hospital prior to her transfer record the mother-of-two as being turned regularly every three or four hours and not having any pressure sores. Catherine Cawte, Mrs Hale’s daughter, told the inquest she had not realised at first how much weight her mother had lost after moving to the nursing home.
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image captionDorothea Hale had bed sores and was severely dehydrated and malnourished when she died, an inquest has heard
A woman says a hospital nurse was so shocked at the condition of her mother she said: Oh my God, what did they do to your mother in that care home? .
Catherine Cawte has been giving evidence at an inquest in Newport into the death of her mother Dorothea Hale.
She was a resident at Grosvenor Care Home in Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, from July to November 2006.
Mrs Hale, who was severely dehydrated and malnourished, died aged 75 in hospital on 6 January 2007.
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