Caretaker in B.C. woman’s starvation death says she got little management support | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Chuck Chiang
Publication Date: January 15, 2025 - 19:20

Caretaker in B.C. woman’s starvation death says she got little management support

January 15, 2025
The caretaker convicted for her part in the starvation death of Florence Girard told a coroner’s inquest in British Columbia Wednesday that she wouldn’t have gone into home care had she known how little support would be given to her.Astrid Dahl also criticized the homecare organization she worked for when Girard, who had Down syndrome, starved to death in her care in 2018, telling a coroner’s inquest that Kinsight Community Society put “paperwork before people” and provided little support for things such as prescribed pain medication or health expertise.“The whole program has to change from top to bottom,” Dahl testified when asked about Kinsight’s handling of the home-sharing service in cases such as Girard’s. “It needs to go back to the way that it was, which is individualized programming.


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