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".
Yes...when my dad died (Alzheimer's) I questioned the morphine...he was terminal...but the morphine is supposed to help them relax so they more easily pass, which may be true. But morphine can damage the kidneys, which is usually what causes a patient to die...it is vicious cycle...
both my parents died of dementia/alzheimers. At some point they refuse food and medications and become very difficult to arouse. They fade away quickly. In the final stages their bodies tend to stiffen, and any movement was quite painful. Both in hospice and given the order for oral morphine. It was given to keep them out of pain. It is possible it pushed them over the edge, but they were ready to pass, death rattles, etc.