I've been told by a GP that a number of patients in care homes starve to death; they're either physically unable to feed themselves, or too demented to remember. Staff put food in front of them. Patients do not feed themselves. Patients starve to death, because no-one has the time or inclination to feed them. And that cause of death is almost never listed as starvation because the acute cause of death is something different, but something that has been exacerbated by not being fed. My mother has proposed to jump off beachy head before being put in a care home.