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64y · Male·Complications of Alzheimer's dementia
Allan Anton, aged 64, died on 24 September 2025 from complications of Alzheimer's dementia at his specialist disability accommodation in Tarneit. He was diagnosed with younger onset dementia in November 2021 following a …
75y · Male·combined effects of subdural haematoma and facial fractures following a fall com…
A 75-year-old man with advanced Alzheimer's dementia residing in aged care died in hospital following a fall at his residential facility. He was assessed as high falls risk at the aged care facility. After collapsing and…
6y · Unknown·Complications of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
TPK was a 6-year-old with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), a progressive neurodegenerative leukodystrophy diagnosed at birth causing profound disability and seizures. Placed with foster parents Mr and Mrs JEP via Depa…
51y · Male·High blood alcohol and positional asphyxia in a man with cerebral palsy and acqu…
Wayne Douglas Scott, 51, died from high blood alcohol and positional asphyxia at his home in Lalor, Victoria. He had cerebral palsy, low vision, dysarthria, depression, and acquired brain injury from a drug overdose more…
61y · Female·Unascertained (natural causes)
Ms Harris, aged 61, with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and multiple medical conditions (including aortic regurgitation, hypothyroidism, dyspnoea, hyperlipidaemia, and obesity), was living in supporte…
38y · Female·Pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep venous thrombosis due to promethazin…
Elizabeth Jean Hanlon, aged 38, died from pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep venous thrombosis following a promethazine overdose. She had complex mental health diagnoses including borderline personality disorder…
78y · Female·urinary tract infection and pneumonia on a background of facial fractures and de…
A 78-year-old woman with mixed dementia living in aged care suffered an unwitnessed fall on 22 March 2023, sustaining facial fractures and eye laceration. The fractures were not identified during her initial hospital ass…
85y · Male·systemic sepsis due to infected right perineal ulcer and associated perianal abs…
An 85-year-old man with dementia and multiple comorbidities died of sepsis caused by an infected sacral pressure ulcer that developed and deteriorated while resident at an aged care facility. Initially assessed as stage …
Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism and bronchopneumonia secondary to deep vein thrombosis
JNY, a man with metastatic small cell carcinoma, COPD, and ischaemic heart disease, died from pulmonary thromboembolism and bronchopneumonia. He received palliative care at home provided by his partner PJN, who had undis…
50y · Male·unascertained
Simon Gaskill, aged 50, was found deceased in sand dunes at Ocean Grove Beach in April 2022 after sleeping rough for months. He had been discharged from hospital in December 2021 following treatment for severe alcohol wi…
11y · Male·Bronchopneumonia and small bowel necrosis with perforation, in a boy with multic…
Child MML was an Aboriginal boy born in April 2010 who suffered catastrophic abusive head trauma at eight months old in December 2010, causing severe lifelong neurological impairment including cerebral palsy, uncontrolle…
45y · Female·Complications of sepsis secondary to sacral pressure wound in a woman with genet…
Kristy Ann Mitchener, a 45-year-old woman with severe intellectual disability, genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, and oesophageal dysmotility, died from sepsis secondary to a sacral pressure ulcer despit…
72y · Female·acute on chronic renal failure due to sepsis and chronic left leg cellulitis
Kerrie Dawn Grant, a 72-year-old woman with multiple comorbidities including pulmonary hypertension, cardiac failure, COPD, and myelofibrosis, had a well-documented history of recurrent falls with prolonged periods unabl…
66y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle collision
A 66-year-old cyclist was struck and killed from behind by a driver with left absolute homonymous hemianopia (left-sided visual field loss) who was not scanning to compensate for his disability. The driver had suffered a…
42y · Female·Pneumonia, underlying severe cerebral palsy
Rachel Piskun, aged 42, died from pneumonia complicated by severe cerebral palsy. She had severe disabilities requiring 24-hour care in supported accommodation. During a September 2021 hospitalization, compression stocki…
80y · Female·Fractured left neck of femur on a background of rectal carcinoma and dementia
An 80-year-old woman with dementia and undiagnosed rectal carcinoma died from complications of a fractured left neck of femur sustained during a fall in her aged care facility's memory support unit. She had sustained thr…
59y · Male·Urosepsis and aspiration pneumonia (with Trisomy 21 as underlying condition)
Donald Raymond Muir, a 59-year-old man with Trisomy 21, non-verbal autism, dementia and epilepsy living in specialist disability accommodation, died of urosepsis and aspiration pneumonia. He had experienced progressive f…
<1y · Male·prematurity-associated lung and bowel disease
Daniel Wright was a premature infant (born at 24 weeks) with multiple complex medical needs including chronic lung disease, developmental delay, and failure to thrive. He died aged eight months from prematurity-associate…
83y · Male·end-stage Parkinson's disease (palliated)
Raymond John Blackney, an 83-year-old man with end-stage Parkinson's disease, died in custody at Port Phillip Prison from natural causes. He had complex medical needs including dementia, intellectual disability, and mult…
69y · Female·Effects of fire
Stephanie Rebernik, aged 69, died in a house fire in 2023. She had an acquired brain injury from 1980 with cognitive decline, poor risk identification, and a documented five-year history of unsafe fire-lighting behaviour…
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