MONTREAL — The family of a 93-year-old Quebec woman who died after spending about 36 hours inert on her balcony at a seniors’ residence wants to see better surveillance for the elderly in such establishments. She was discovered on June 25, dehydrated and suffering from hypothermia and died three days later in hospital on June 28. She wasn’t wearing her bracelet alarm to alert anyone she’d fallen. “My mother fell on her balcony — she fell a lot.”Typically her mother wore a bracelet that alerted staff to any problems, Ouellet said. “Mom wore her bracelet — but on the day of the 23rd, she wasn’t wearing it,” Ouellet said.

Source: National Post July 03, 2019 18:22 UTC