MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'elder neglect'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:27:37 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347915&cid=t_230240_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2Fmedical-war-against-elderly-british.html This study and the story of the nurse illustrate the subversive impact of the bioethical "quality of life" ethic--that is fast supplanting the Hippocratic "equality of life" approach--on medicine. The bioethicists might respond by denying they support discrimination--they see themselves as liberals, after all (although they really are not)--only "rational" withholding of high tech and expensive care based on the bioethical principle of distributive justice. But this excuse ignores the impact of ideas and how they can impact actual practice in the trenches. As a logical species, we take accepted premises where they lead. In this situation, the idea that ill elderly patients have less value based on quality of life, causes people to perceive such people as different from other patients, resu... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347915 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:40:00 +0100 2347915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347916&cid=t_230240_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2Fwar-against-elderly-patients-in-uk.html A nurse in the UK reveals terrible abuse and neglect of elderly patients at a hospital in the UK. You'd think the powers that be would give her a medal. Nope. As I reported here yesterday, Margaret Haywood secretly filmed and proved how badly patients were being treated. Her reward? She's lost the right to be a nurse. From the story:Nurse Margaret Haywood has been struck off the register with immediate effect after secretly filming for a BBC Panorama programme exposing neglect of elderly patients in a hospital.Nurse Margaret Haywood secretly filmed the neglect of elderly patients Photo: PA Miss Haywood, 58, recorded appalling conditions at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton for a BBC documentary screened in July 2005. She said: "I was convinced that it was the right thing to do at the t... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347916 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:25:00 +0100 2347916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258228&cid=t_230240_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F-m-gYnaw5YQ%2F Everyone is anxious for improvements in health care, not necessarily the care itself, but the coverage.  Many seem to feel it should be free and include everyone and everything. Granted, it becomes more and more difficult to provide for health care for everyone and difficult for it to be affordable.  So…let the government become involved, many say, and have the Obama team and Congress to give us miraculous solutions.  Will expectations be as people wish or will we find there are patients the administrators feel are beyond reasonable care so are allowed to die, actually forced to die? Is it written into the proposed Obama health care scheme that administrators, other than doctors and medical personnel, determine whether the cost of saving the elderly is too much for what they... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258228 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:04:26 +0100 2258228