Psy­chi­a­trist Dr Var­ma Deyals­ingh says that greater in­volve­ment from the State is nec­es­sary in iden­ti­fy­ing homes where el­der­ly peo­ple may not be re­ceiv­ing the care they need.

Deyals­ingh main­tains that such an ap­proach would im­prove ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty to care, es­pe­cial­ly in light of two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents where el­der­ly women died and be­gan to de­com­pose at their re­spec­tive homes.

In the most re­cent in­ci­dent, the body of 74-year-old Doo­d­hani Vish­vati Sook­nanan was found un­der the bed of her Tore­nia Dri­ve, Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas home by po­lice on Thurs­day.