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When first responders arrived at the home, they found the woman on the floor and covered in waste, which doctors learned was several days old.Woman charged with neglecting elderly mom's care, leading to her death:According to detectives, Meers told her sister that she had called an elder abuse hotline on herself because "she was tired and not able to take care of [her mother] like she wanted to," the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.A week later, Meers told her sister that their mother had not eaten in four days, and that contrary to what she had said earlier, she had not reached out for external help.

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