A heartbroken son has claimed his 88-year-old mum has been left to die slowly from "dehydration and malnutrition" after being sent back to a care home from hospital.
Rob Taylor, a police rural and wildlife crime co-ordinator, said his mum was in an unnamed hospital in North Wales after suffering a stroke around four weeks ago. However, doctors started end of life care, with food and fluids being withdrawn, after telling Mr Taylor there was nothing more they could do, and that his mother would have to go back to the care home.
Mr Taylor posted an emotional video on Twitter on Thursday in which he claimed his mother was being left "to die slowly slowly from dehydration and malnutrition in front of our very eyes." While Mr Taylor did not criticise nurses or care staff, he said the experience was a "harrowing" one for the family and said he believed his mother's end of life care was "inhumane," North Wales Live reports.
