A sad story that occurred in the town of Prestino, in Lombardy, Italy, has gone around the world as it shows how some older adults spend the evening of their lives practically alone.
It turns out that a couple of days ago, some police officers went to a house near Lake Como because the neighbors reported that a tree in the property’s garden was about to fall and this could cause a fire. serious accident.
When they arrived at the property, the policemen checked it and noticed, at first, that nobody was there; however, upon further examination, they found the body of an elderly woman completely mummified on a chair in her living room.
The woman was identified as Marinella Beretta, who died alone at home of natural causes, according to the expert report, at 40 years.
The neighbors regretted what happened, assuring that they had indeed had all that time without seeing her, thinking that she was completely isolated by the Covid pandemic or that she had moved, without ever imagining what had really happened to her.
It also transpired that the old woman had no close relatives.
“What happened to Marinella Beretta in Como, the loneliness, the oblivion, it hurts our consciences”, the Minister for the Family of that country, Elena Bonetti, wrote on Facebook.
“A community that wants to be united has the duty to remember life. We must stop limiting our horizons to the private sphere and reestablish the ties that unite us (…) No one should be left alone”, he added.
In Italy, almost 40% of people over 75 years old live alone and that same percentage of people do not have relatives or friends to turn to in case of need, according to a report by the National Institute of Statistics (Istat) of the 550.
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