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Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Don­na Cox is urg­ing fam­i­lies to do their part in check­ing in on el­der­ly rel­a­tives reg­u­lar­ly to en­sure their health and well-be­ing.

Cox made the call af­ter the de­com­pos­ing bod­ies of three el­der­ly men were found in their homes in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents over the last two weeks.

Last Tues­day, po­lice were called to dif­fer­ent parts of La Canoa, San­ta Cruz, where the de­com­pos­ing bod­ies of two el­der­ly men were dis­cov­ered. In the first in­ci­dent, 82-year-old Leroy James was found in the bed of his Saut D’Eau Road, home.