Yes, my grandmother had suffered a stroke. She was still conscious and, per the caregivers’ and attending family accounts, could follow instructions and conversations. I was away in college and didn’t talk to her during that time, so I can’t judge her mental acuity beyond that. But at the end, she just gave up and refused to eat. She passed in a couple of days. My grandfather had been dead for years. Two sons and one of the daughters were close enough that they visited daily. She was well attended.
It sounds like Gene and his wife had bunkered in and, after 20 years of this, had become social isolates. It happens. I’m still surprised that they didn’t have someone coming in, but people do odd things.
The groundskeepers or gardeners came in every couple weeks, apparently. That is who found them. But their job wasn’t to look after their welfare.
“It sounds like Gene and his wife had bunkered in and, after 20 years of this, had become social isolates.”
In an article Hubby read, it said they were “private”.
It also said they lived in a gated community, and those places often have security people. If it were us, we’d have someone like that check on us daily.
Such a tragedy.