AN 84-year-old woman who fell at the Derby care home where she lived died as a result of an accident, a coroner has ruled.
Joyce Harrison was found lying on the floor outside her room at Elvaston Lodge Residential Home, in Alvaston Lane. An inquest heard she had dementia and had experienced "recurrent falls" at the home in the lead-up to the accident.
The hearing was told that she suffered a brain haemorrhage as a result of the fall on August 12, her condition deteriorated while she was in hospital and she died six days later. A post-mortem examination found she died from bronchial pneumonia brought about due to the head injury suffered in the fall.
Louise Pinder, assistant coroner for Derby and Derbyshire, said she was satisfied staff at the home had done all they could to prevent Mrs Harrison from falling.
