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Family rosters themselves on for shifts looking after elderly relative in hospital.
Despite suffering severe dementia the family worried about the standard of her care.
Another elderly hospital patient was left alone and suffering, his wife says.
The family of an elderly woman with severe dementia were so concerned about the standard of her hospital care that they rostered themselves on shifts to look after her.
And for another severely ill elderly man, what was scheduled as a short hospital stay for a routine operation ended with him catching norovirus and losing over 10kg.
His wife said the worst part of it all was that he was left to suffer alone in soiled bedding.
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