Dementia Patients Hospitalized Too Often, Study Finds

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via Alzheimers Daily News

Dementia Patients Hospitalized Too Often, Study Finds

1/20/11

Perhaps no group of nursing home residents is more vulnerable than those with

advanced dementia: unable to speak for themselves, suffering the physical as

well as the cognitive effects of their terminal disease, prone to confusion or

fear when subjected to blood tests or trips in screaming ambulances.

Yet dementia patients are often subjected to aggressive treatments and transfers

even though studies show little benefit, as researchers at Hebrew Senior Life

Institute for Aging Research in Boston keep pointing out.

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