A resident at a Canberra aged care home was allegedly given the wrong medication in the weeks before she died, a coroner’s court heard Monday. The woman’s condition had deteriorated and she was taken from Goodwin Village in Ainslie to Calvary Hospital, where she died on February 20, 2016. She was 89-years-old. Her death will be examined at an inquest in the ACT Coroner’s Court next year. Counsel assisting the coroner Sarah Baker-Goldsmith told the court on Monday that a doctor at the hospital had referred the woman’s death to the coroner two days after she died. It is alleged that while the woman was at the aged care home on February 9 she received Lyrica and Targin – medications she was not prescribed. Her condition worsened and she was taken to hospital where she later died. The cause of death was recorded as aspiration pneumonia. Chief Coroner Lorraine Walker set down the hearing for April 29, 30 and May 1 next year.
