Kirstie LumleyHer social care was taken over by Bradford Council, which provided just over 19 hours of care per week.
It meant there was no longer anyone to sit with Pearl overnight and she would instead receive one 30-minute visit for toilet needs.
Within a week Pearl had fallen out of bed for the first time in a pattern which would repeat itself a further five times.
Kirstie said she believed her grandmother was “let down” because the local authority “failed to keep her safe”.
“We knew she was going to die because she had end stage dementia.
“We weren’t trying to prolong her life, and we were under no illusions that she was at the end of her life, but her ultimate death was much crueller than it needed to be,” she explained.
