AN elderly lady who slipped in her kitchen died in palliative care after suffering a significant bleed on the brain, an inquest heard.

Violet Agnus Stubbs, aged 97, of Kestrel Drive in Dalton, was admitted to Furness General Hospital on May 15 this year and died three days later.

Cockermouth Coroners Court heard she had pressed her lifeline pendant to alert her son because she was unable to get up but her son rang 999 because he did not want to move her.

When paramedics arrived, they found her lying on her side fully alert and conscious with a ‘large pool of blood above her head’.

The court heard she had also complained to the paramedics of pain in her right groin and shoulder areas.

She was examined by a CT trauma scan at FGH which revealed she had suffered a very serious ‘midline shift’ of brain tissue across the centre of her brain.

Doctors deemed that she was not fit enough for surgical intervention due to her age and previous medical history of stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease so was placed into palliative care.

Coroner Margaret Taylor recorded the death as accidental due to a traumatic sub-dural haematoma.