She added that residents were found to be at risk and were moved out of the home within days. There were also four allegations of residents lying in urine and staff not closing curtains when helping with personal care. Giving evidence, she described fears around staffing, intervention where residents were abusing each other, neglectful care, discrimination, a dirty kitchen, inadequate nutrition, non-maintenance of equipment or records, use of incorrect equipment to handle people and residents wearing each other’s clothes.Ĭoncerns were also raised about unexplained bruising, delays in assessment of injuries, management of pressure ulcers and incontinence need. Prior to her death, Mrs Atkin was left skeletal, severely dehydrated and lying on a bed soaked in urine and with a large, open, pressure sore at the base of her back. ‘In my opinion, if she had gone out in the same medical condition as she had gone in, she would not have been expected to die as she did from the conditions she did.’ Pathologist Professor Guy Rutty said: 'She had a dramatic decrease in body mass during the time from her admission to Autumn Grange to her death which had been a significant factor in her death. The widow was found dead in her own urine and with a rotting bed sore just 48 days after she had moved into Autumn Grange Care Home in Nottingham.Īn inquest at Nottingham Coroner’s Court heard the retired dressmaker’s body had become ‘emaciated’ during her stay at the care home before she died in November 2012.Īnd around the time of her death, a Care Quality Commission inspection was released which suggested 'all is well'. Ivy Atkin weighed just 3st 12lbs and had a body mass index (BMI) of 10.7 - half the normal amount for a healthy adult - when she died. Dementia sufferer: Ivy Atkin, 86, weighed just 3st 12lbs when she died after appalling negligence at a care home in NottinghamĪn 86-year-old dementia sufferer who weighed less than four stone died after appalling negligence at a care home, an inquest has heard.
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