Author: Emily Stanworth / Editor: Jessie Lynch / Codes: / Published: 25/06/2025
A 62-year-old woman of Japanese origin presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with a fever and shortness of breath.
She has a background of learning difficulties and a stroke a year ago. Her elderly sister has not been able to manage to help her upstairs to bed in the last few weeks, and she has been sleeping on a mattress on the floor.
