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Avoidable deaths

A trawl though Google reveals that there are a number of avoidable deaths in Sheltered Housing.
People have collapsed on the floor of their flat unable to reach a pull cord, and even though some do own
a alert pendant they were not wearing it at the time.

It must be recalled here that the average age of residents of Sheltered Housing is at the top end of the scale of life expectancy . Many people of this age face pain, frailty, unsteadiness, breathlessness, etc. on a day to day basis. For a number there is also mental confusion . Add too, people in this age group very often do not wish to cause a fuss ! Given the outlined circumstances at what point, precisely, are they to activate their emergency alarm !

There have been cases where people have lain dead, dying, or in a serious medical condition for several days before they have been found. There are several recorded cases where this has occurred when the Warden service had lacked anticipated continuity. Google does not record every case, there are probably many such events that do not reach the local newspapers, hence they are invisible to Google's web-crawlers.



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