Burgled elderly often die within two years of event

ELDERLY people who have been burgled are twice as likely to die within two years because of related trauma, a report has revealed.

The research was carried out on 109 elderly people who lived in a sheltered community in Flintshire, North Wales.

Of the 56 people who had been burgled, 11 had died 30 months after the incident and a further nine had gone into residential care. This was almost twice as high as the remaining 53 people who had not been burgled. Six of this group died in the same period and two went into care.