BREAKING NEWS: Care homes in the UK caught using death penalty drugs, was this to artificially bump the COVID numbers up?
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My next door neighbour who had medium dementia died really quickly in a care home in the summer of 2020. He died quickly of pneumonia pretty much over a day. The care home wanted to write it down as covid even though he had had several tests which were all negative. He wasn't a fit person, but he had no specific illnesses that I know of except the dementia. I think it is likely that he was murdered, He was in his mid seventies. I was not expecting him to die.
I think hastening people's departure is a common occurrence in hospitals and nursing homes. There is a fine line between making terminally ill patients comfortable and making sick people sick enough to die...it's all about the $$$$, especially when they die with covid. The hospitals should be paid when people recover, not when they die...I think we'd see definite improvement...
This is true. Morphine is used to hasten death. It is not "care".
I’ve heard my dad mention this. When hospice comes in, the person is dead soon. Not comfortable. Dead.
Of course patients in hospice die soon. Only those with a 6-month prognosis are admitted to hospice, and to remain in hospice, they need to show either no improvement or actual decline. Hospice provides in-home care so that dying patients and their families spend their last days together, resolve any past issues, get their affairs in order, etc. They are supported with aides for bathing and personal care, nurses for progress and medication monitoring, social workers, chaplains, and supervising physicians. The patient and family are in charge of medication administration, and they can refuse it at any time. They can revoke hospice any time. Hospice is not assisted euthanasia. There are patients that actually improve on hospice and are then discharged.
Generally Hospice does not accept a pt unless they believe death is imminent, usually less than 6 months I believe. If a pt improves, they are removed from hospice care, so I was told by the hospice people.
Exactly.