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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Mon Jan 19, 2015, 04:28 PM Jan 2015

Lack of Oversight is Killing Seniors

When families make the decision to put a loved one in hospice care, they are under the assumption that the caretaker will adhere to a strict code of ethics and provide the best service possible to ailing patients. But that isn’t always the case – in fact, the system has become so bad that senior citizens are dying on a regular basis from sub-par hospice care.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses the problem with attorney Charles Meltmar.

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Lack of Oversight is Killing Seniors (Original Post) GoLeft TV Jan 2015 OP

Absolutely! SoapBox Jan 2015 #1

My mother was able to receive hospice care where she had lived in assisted living... Flaxbee Jan 2015 #2

This abuse and neglect of the elderly is disgraceful and inhumane. Seniors are not valued in appalachiablue Jan 2015 #3

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)

1. Absolutely!

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 04:30 PM

Jan 2015

It's one (of several) of America's dirtiest secrets...never discussed.

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)

2. My mother was able to receive hospice care where she had lived in assisted living...

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Mon Jan 19, 2015, 04:57 PM

Jan 2015

and the nurses were very, very good and perceptive and gentle, but the administrators left a lot to be desired...

My sisters and I were very protective of my mother but it very worrying for seniors (or anyone else in hospice) who don't have close family or friends to watch out for them.

appalachiablue

(41,113 posts)

3. This abuse and neglect of the elderly is disgraceful and inhumane. Seniors are not valued in