Problem of reclusion
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June Elderly people who refuse to associate with family or neighbours create a problem for welfare officers. The welfare officei for the North Shore Old People’s Welfare Council (Mr G. W. Prescott) said that he had to deal with a fair number of such cases and was trying to help one or two at the present time. He knew of three quite recent cases where such elderly people were found, dead in their beds, some time after the actual death. They were not discovered when sick or immediately on death because they had no-one with whom they associated. At the annual meeting of the council this week, Mr Prescott cited one case of an elderly widow living in isolation who was found sick, wet and unattended in her bed. This woman died two days after being found, he said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32639, 22 June 1971, Page 4
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