A woman has called for cameras to be installed in care homes after her 92-year-old grandmother fell and was left "begging and screaming" for 22 minutes. Dorothy Selwood fell to the floor as she tried to grab the chair opposite her bed.
She was screaming and banging against whatever she could to get the attention of the staff. The day after the fall Dorothy was in hospital where she caught a chest infection that would result in her death 10 days later.
One year on, Dorothy's granddaughter Samantha Tyson, 45, has started a campaign to get cameras in care homes across the country. She said: "In the last year of her life, [my grandmother] fell from the bed and her calls for help were ignored for 22 minutes. It breaks my heart to think that she suffered so much in her final days."
