The B.C. government is commissioning an independent review of the province's home-share program, months after an inquest into the starvation death of a woman with Down syndrome.

2:02 Florence Girard’s caregiver testifies at B.C. inquest. But the inquest heard the agency does not have the ability to check whether its clients had actually had those visits.

Former co-ordinator at the agency that oversaw Florence Girard's home care before she starved to death says "hindsight is 20/20" in looking back at a missed opportunity to avert the tragedy.

Florence Girard, seen here in a family handout photo from 2006, died of starvation in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., home in 2018. A coroner's inquest into her death begins on Monday.

Florence Girard was fun and loving and swam in the Special Olympics. ‘It breaks my heart that she’s gone,’ says her sister Sharon Bursey. Photo submitted. Florence Girard, a woman with Down ...

Florence Girard’s caregiver has told a B.C. coroner’s inquest she was deterred from getting help before Girard starved to death by policies about respecting the rights of people living under ...

Florence Girard, seen here in a family handout photo from 2006, died of starvation in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., home in 2018. A coroner's inquest into her death begins on Monday.

Florence Girard, seen here in a family handout photo from 2006, died of starvation in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., home in 2018. A coroner's inquest into her death begins on Monday.

Florence Girard, seen in a family handout photo from 2006, died of starvation in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., home in 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO A former co-ordinator at the organization that oversaw ...