Ontario Provincial Police say a 50-year-old woman has been charged in an elder abuse investigation.
They say officers went to a Warwick Township, Ont., home on Thursday to assist health-care workers check on the well-being of a resident.
They helped the health-care officials gain entry to the home, which they say was in a state of squalor.
They say a search of the home eventually located an elderly woman who was incoherent and in need of medical intervention and was taken to hospital.
Police say a Warwick Township woman has been charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life.
She is to appear in Sarnia, Ont., court on June 5.