520 results for “dementia”
93y · Female·blunt trauma with head injury on a background of ischaemic heart disease
Dorothy Mavis Baum, 93, died at Flinders Medical Centre from blunt trauma with head injury following an unprovoked assault by another nursing home resident with a plastic chain. Critical clinical failures occurred: the n…
73y · Female·Open finding - either natural death from medical conditions (hypertension, angin…
Yilmbut Umbul, a 73-year-old Aboriginal woman living at Walmbie Camp near Kalumburu Mission, disappeared in early March 1982. She was frail, with a history of hypertension, angina requiring daily medication, and document…
79y · Female·Dilated cardiomyopathy with decompensated heart failure not appropriately treate…
A 79-year-old woman with severe COPD and heart failure presented with two weeks of nausea and vomiting. She was diagnosed with left ventricular failure (EF 33%) on day 1 of admission. Two cardiologists had key roles: Dr …
75y · Male·Ischaemic Heart Disease and Cardiomegaly
Robert Conkie Gray, a 75-year-old man with significant cardiac disease (ischaemic heart disease, cardiomegaly, triple vessel coronary atherosclerosis with right coronary artery thrombosis), died suddenly on a psychiatric…
86y · Male·ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease
An 86-year-old man died of ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease while serving a prison sentence. He had multiple comorbidities including atrial fibrillation, congestive cardiac failure, and cirrhosis. The coroner exa…
90y · Male·Complications arising from a gastrointestinal obstruction; incarcerated inguinal…
William MacDonald, a 90-year-old prisoner, died from complications of gastrointestinal obstruction caused by an incarcerated inguinal hernia. He presented to Prince of Wales Hospital with severe abdominal pain, nausea, a…
82y · Female·bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism due to left calf deep vein thrombosis
Jean Harrap, 82, died from bilateral pulmonary embolism secondary to left calf deep vein thrombosis while detained under a Mental Health Act Inpatient Treatment Order. She presented to ED with altered mental state, self-…
86y · Male·pulmonary embolism following deep vein thrombosis
Rex Rouse, 86, died from pulmonary embolism following deep vein thrombosis while admitted to the psychiatric unit at Launceston General Hospital on 26 May 2020. He was admitted under a Mental Health Act assessment order …
54y · Female·Complications of mixed drug toxicity (opiates, zolpidem, benzodiazepines and dox…
…entionally took a fatal dose and proposed to assist her mother (an 84-year-old nursing home resident with dementia and terminal cancer) to die. Her mother also died, likely from assisted overdose. The case highlights the…
57y · Male·complications of Down's Syndrome and Dysphagia - aspiration pneumonia
…ions in people with intellectual disability, where aspiration risk increases significantly with advancing dementia and functional decline. The coroner's explicit finding that care was appropriate suggests Gen U staff man…
70y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia, associated with Huntington's disease
Beryl Watson, a severely disabled 70-year-old with advanced Huntington's disease and dementia, died of aspiration pneumonia following a three-week respite stay at a BUPA aged care facility. Critical …
Unknown·unknown - cause of death could not be determined
Walter William Cowell (born 1923) and Joan Iris Jean Cowell (born 1925) disappeared in 1983 at an unknown location. Both had significant mental health histories: Walter had post-traumatic stress disorder and depression f…
68y · Female·chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Ms Sniecikowska, a 68-year-old Polish-speaking woman with severe COPD, chronic alcoholism, cognitive impairment, and significant social isolation, was admitted to hospital for acute COPD exacerbation on 29 August 2016. D…
77y · Female·Complications of malnutrition in a woman with paranoid delusions
A 77-year-old woman with complex medical and psychiatric history died from complications of malnutrition while an inpatient with paranoid delusions and delirium. She was admitted following falls and required compulsory t…
58y · Male·Septic shock secondary to intra-abdominal collections as sequelae of osteomyelit…
A 58-year-old man with Down syndrome and multiple comorbidities died from septic shock secondary to intra-abdominal collections caused by osteomyelitis/discitis of the spine. He initially presented with a foot bone infec…
87y · Male·Strangulated small bowel due to adhesions from previous abdominal surgery
An 87-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension and dementia was admitted with presumed UTI and dehydration. Within 24 hours, nursing staff observed a distended abdom…
81y · Male·Unable to determine - likely dehydration and exposure in remote bushland terrain…
Joseph Wellard Higgs, aged 81, disappeared in May 1986 from a remote area near Davyhurst, Western Australia. He had cognitive decline with short-term memory loss, difficulty walking due to hip surgery complications, a he…
65y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia with Down syndrome as underlying condition
Bernadette Rogers, a 65-year-old woman with Down syndrome and intellectual disability, died from aspiration pneumonia with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia as a contributing factor. She had suffered recurrent chest infecti…
85y · Female·aspiration of gastric contents following vomiting
Joan May Hughes, age 85, died on 16 June 2014 from aspiration of gastric contents following vomiting. She was admitted to the Roy Fagan Centre with psychotic depression and was under a Mental Health Act treatment order. …
64y · Male·Septic shock secondary to urosepsis (Pseudomonas and Stenotropomonas maltophilia…
RD, a 64-year-old man with diabetes, amputation, and COPD, presented to a private hospital emergency department with suspected sepsis (vomiting, diarrhoea, hypotension, acute kidney injury, elevated troponin, hyperkalaem…
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