Disabled Man Starves To Death During Covid.

[Halibut]

5 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:

  People don't just "starve" to death. 

Yes, they do.

[ECCOnoob]

4 minutes ago, Halibut said:

Yes, they do.

No they don't.

 

There is a chain of events leading up to that.  There are a multitude of reasons to be explored whether through self neglect, abandonment, self-harm, negligence by others, institutional failure....

 

I don't work in a world of "...just because"  

[Litotes]

2 hours ago, Lex Luthor said:

Where a person has died of starvation, in law it must go on the death certificate,or the Coroner's office are not doing their job.

Starvation isn't a cause of death is it - surely heart failure or organ failure due to starvation is the cause of death

[Arnold_Lane]

1 hour ago, Litotes said:

Starvation isn't a cause of death is it - surely heart failure or organ failure due to starvation is the cause of death

Malnutrition can go on a death certificate as primary cause.

Edited June 25, 2020 by Arnold_Lane

[Lex Luthor]

1 hour ago, Arnold_Lane said:

Malnutrition can go on a death certificate as primary cause.

Indeed.  

 

A little more information here:

 

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathscausedbystarvationandmalnutritionintheuk

[catmiss]

10 hours ago, tinfoilhat said:

Did he register with any supermarket deliveries?!?!

 

Not unless he was incredibly quick off the mark and had a computer. That said if you were  labled "at risk" by the council (certainly ours) food arrived. 

The letter I received as someone identified as ‘extremely vulnerable ‘ asked me to register for support on line OR via a telephone number provided which was an automated service. Both options required some degree of expertise. I received basic but adequate ‘care packages’ until I was provided with priority on line access to supermarket home delivery. It’s worked ok for me BUT the qualifying conditions were limited to a few conditions. The government also identified a vulnerable category of over 70s and disabled with supermarkets identifying specific shopping hours. I have experience of NHS, local government, voluntary organisations and friends/family  confusing the two groups. Friends have told me I can  use the specific shopping hours and a neighbour verbally attacked me for receiving home delivery when her family of six didn’t have access.

A lot of people, particularly if they weren’t on statutory or voluntary sector radars will have fallen through the cracks and received little or no support. I deregistered for the care packages once I had access to online shopping but I know of several people who have continued receipt whilst making trips to supermarkets

[alchresearch]

17 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:

There is a chain of events leading up to that.  There are a multitude of reasons to be explored whether through self neglect, abandonment, self-harm, negligence by others, institutional failure....

There was a guy a year or two who died this way.  His death was used as a political football, with emphasis on "nasty government" rather than the fact the guy had friends and family and deliberately cut himself off from them and became a recluse shunning and help and support.

 

It doesn't make this or any situation right, just that there's often more to a story.

[ECCOnoob]

57 minutes ago, alchresearch said:

 

It doesn't make this or any situation right, just that there's often more to a story.

Completely agree.

 

That's why I hate this sort of lazy half-assed shock journalism and people who jump all over it to further their cause without considering the full context.

 

[Lex Luthor]

Let's face it.  This run of Tory governments has an appalling record on it's responsibilities to disabled people.

[ECCOnoob]

1 hour ago, Lex Luthor said:

Let's face it.  This run of Tory governments has an appalling record on it's responsibilities to disabled people.

Connected to this tragedy because......?