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The daughter of a woman with Huntington's disease told how her mother received no help with eating or drinking.
She said: "Carers were supposed to feed and give drinks but simply left them beside a person who was physically unable to feed herself because the carers had to go to their next client. My mother went down to seven stone.
"Someone with Huntington's needs an hour per meal to swallow food/drink, and special care when it all falls out of their mouth, and they get very damp and dirty.
"They also need 4,000 calories per day to maintain body weight due to the chorea movements that constantly burn energy."