Hearing examining starvation death of Flroence Girard, a woman in care with Down Syndrome
The president of a Down syndrome advocacy group in British Columbia says more funding support is needed for parents and caretakers to avoid tragedies such as the starvation death of a woman in 2018.
Taggart, whose organization was launched in 2021 in direct response to Girard’s death, says her family had to pay $12,000 a year for therapy to help her son learn how to eat solid food, and the province provides no support in her case or other similar situations.
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