A disabled man living in a group home died malnourished in hospital. His family wants answers – CBC
Gimli care home resident Sean Feldsted weighed just 92 pounds when he died in 2024
May 13, 2026
A family is calling for an inquest after an intellectually disabled man who was being cared for at a Manitoba group home died in hospital with significant malnutrition.
Sean Feldsted, 54, died in early 2024 at a Winnipeg hospital, a month after his sister found him at his group home in Gimli — frail, emaciated and with a full catheter bag.
It’s a memory Shelley Shultz says will haunt her for the rest of her life.
“We were in absolute shock — absolute, complete shock,” at her brother’s appearance, said Shultz, who lived in B.C. at the time and flew back to Winnipeg in December 2023 after their father told her Sean was sick.
“It was terrifying. Have you ever seen somebody who starved? Like, actually seen them and touched them? He was pure bones.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/death-group-home-disability-malnutrition-9.7193377
