No response from nursing home over death of woman

THE nursing home where a woman died, and whose body was in what was described by an undertaker as a “shocking state”, refused to answer queries yesterday.

Lucan Lodge Nursing Home now faces scrutiny by independent medical staff after an inquest heard an elderly woman died of pneumonia, skin ulceration, cystitis and dehydration.

Elizabeth Donovan, 98, died in May last year and “must have been in a great deal of pain” when she died, Dublin County Coroner’s Court heard this week. She died weighing between 35 and 40 kilogrammes and was last seen by a doctor six weeks before her death.