Posted on 08/29/2010 8:28:41 PM PDT by jakerobins
ELDERLY people are being left to STARVE on NHS wards, a shocking report revealed today. Almost 180,000 patients left hospital malnourished in 2008/9.
And 239 patients DIED of malnutrition in hospital in 2007, charity Age UK found.
Those with difficulty swallowing are put at risk of choking by not being given puréed food. Other people's trays are put out of reach or taken away untouched.
Fewer than half of hospitals screen older patients for malnutrition on admission
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Yes, absolutely.
That will never happen under Obamascare. Pelosi assures that such horror could not happen here.. PELOSI: Palliative End of Life Optimum Serenity Injections. They won't feel a thing.
Let’s not kid ourselves here, I’ll warrant quite a few offspring of said unfortunates know exactly what is going on and have no problem with it.
Not until it’s their turn, of course.
The same no doubt happens to the (unwanted) profoundly disabled, mentally retarded, chronically ill, etc.
It just won’t be as blatant as Der Fuhrer’s “Aktion T4”. The staff just kinda, sorta fails to notice that the patient isn’t eating.
I have to agree that many of the elderly are almost abandoned by their children.....and it's sad. What goes around...comes around.
As I said before......if the patient qualifies...hospice services coming on board will assure the patient has extra care and the facilities become more diligent.... because someone is looking over their shoulder.
If someone will give me a $250,000 federal grant, I believe I can prove definitively that dead patients are less expensive than those kept alive. Perhaps this is why our new Medicare and Medicaid director has said “I’m romantic about the NHS. I love it.”
That’s the plan.
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