I think it was already mentioned; but I suspect follow the money might show what the situation really is. Seniors with employer funded pensions are like a double jackpot to money grubbers. It's happened several times in my family.
You are exactly right!
There's usually a family member or close friend who is responsible. Seen it more than I care to even think about.
Whomever is making routine visits to a shut in like this poor lady HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY speak out and get her help immediately. There are home care nurses and such that can come out and bath her, clean for her, cook for her and help with almost everything. There's no excuse for any of this. I'm sorry but I do hold the volunteers responsible to a degree for not reporting her living conditions immediately. It only takes ONE call. Some may disagree with me but they did have a responsibility as a human being to see that she got the help she needed. One call to social services would have gotten her the help she needed.
She was left basically to eat herself to death and live in her own filth.
Honestly if it was my family member, I'd clean out the dang house even if she didn't like it! She needed someone to put their foot down and care for her properly. The guy saying she even kept pizza boxes for art projects?? WTH.
It's not like she was getting out of the chair to stop you. I know it sounds cruel to say but they should've backed a truck up to her door and got rid of all that nastiness and hoarding. She obviously couldn't do anything with it in her condition anyways.
I know she has rights, but family sometimes NEEDS to step in and do what is right for her to provide her with safe living conditions. I'd put ear buds in crank up the music and clean even if she fussed and screamed at me. I'd do it out of LOVE. No judge in their right mind would say you did her wrong by cleaning up her home and getting her a safe environment.
There are elderly that have been dead for years and family members hide it to continue to get their checks. Happens all the time. It's disgusting how people can treat someone like that and still sleep at night.
You CALL and get help! She should've been in a nursing facility that would provide her the proper care and nutrition. She needed to be on a diet to help her lose some weight so she could safely begin moving around again and get active and social with others. The saddest thing is, when I worked at a nursing home for 8 years, and we had very overweight patients and they were dying because of that weight, family and friends would STILL sneak in and bring them food.
I swear on a bible once I had a patient that had a family member bring him a BUCKET of chicken AND one of those MASSIVE packs of red hotdogs. He ATE IT ALL within 20 min. Plus he was diabetic...
It's like they WANT them to die I swear! Breaks my heart!