Starving for Care: Nursing Home Patients Die from Malnutrition. Brad Heath.
by Heath, Brad; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 42Family. Publisher: Detroit News, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Dehydration (Physiology) | Malnutrition | Medical personnel -- Supply and demand | Nursing home care | Nursing home patients | Nursing home patients -- Abuse of | Nursing homes -- Complaints against | Older people -- Abuse ofDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Thousands of patients in America's nursing homes are killed by malnutrition and dehydration every year, victims of a silent and largely preventable epidemic caused by a breakdown in basic care." (DETROIT NEWS) This report provides an overview of the problems plaguing U.S. nursing homes and notes that "in thousands of nursing homes...inattention has caused patients who cannot feed themselves to go without enough food and water or allowed obvious, life-threatening problems to be overlooked."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Starving for Care: Nursing Home Patients Die from Malnutrition, Nov. 28, 2004; pp. 1A+.
"Thousands of patients in America's nursing homes are killed by malnutrition and dehydration every year, victims of a silent and largely preventable epidemic caused by a breakdown in basic care." (DETROIT NEWS) This report provides an overview of the problems plaguing U.S. nursing homes and notes that "in thousands of nursing homes...inattention has caused patients who cannot feed themselves to go without enough food and water or allowed obvious, life-threatening problems to be overlooked."
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