Dementia patients suffer dubious hospitalizations

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

One-fifth of Medicare nursing home patients with advanced Alzheimer's or other dementias were sent to hospitals or other nursing homes for questionable reasons in their final months, often enduring tube feeding and intensive care that prolonged their demise, a new study found....

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