Nation's Nursing Homes Quietly Killing Thousands. / Andrew Schneider and Phillip O'Connor.
by Schneider, Andrew; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 60Family. Publisher: KRT News Service, 2002ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Aged -- Abuse of | Death -- Causes | Nursing home care | Nursing home patients -- Abuse of | Nursing homesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Thousands of America's elderly mothers, fathers and grandparents are being killed each year in the nation's nursing homes--frail victims of premature and preventable deaths. This quiet pandemic is rarely detected by government inspectors, investigated by law enforcement, appraised by medical examiners or prosecuted by anyone." (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) This article addresses the problem of abuse and neglect of nursing home patients, and reports that most of the deaths can be "traced to caregivers upon whom residents depend for food and liquid and for turning them in their beds to prevent the formation of life-threatening sores.".
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Originally Published: Nation's Nursing Homes Quietly Killing Thousands, Oct. 22, 2002; pp. n.p..
"Thousands of America's elderly mothers, fathers and grandparents are being killed each year in the nation's nursing homes--frail victims of premature and preventable deaths. This quiet pandemic is rarely detected by government inspectors, investigated by law enforcement, appraised by medical examiners or prosecuted by anyone." (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) This article addresses the problem of abuse and neglect of nursing home patients, and reports that most of the deaths can be "traced to caregivers upon whom residents depend for food and liquid and for turning them in their beds to prevent the formation of life-threatening sores.".
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