Front-page second-section feature: Kicking up their heels; Soccer Grannies find their way from South Africa for tournament, fun
Isn't their a SPORTS SECTION I NEVER READ for that?
As for the old folks around here:
"Study questions dementia care; Using antibiotics for pneumonia could do harm" by Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | July 13, 2010
Nursing homes routinely give dementia patients antibiotics to treat pneumonia, but a study of Massachusetts patients reveals that this widespread practice may be causing as much harm as good.
Related: The Massachusetts Model: Nursing Home Will Make You Nuts
It found that using antibiotics to fight off pneumonia, a common illness in late-stage dementia, can prolong patients’ lives by nine months on average, but that they can suffer increased pain, depression, anxiety, and agitation from the treatment.
With an estimated 5 million Americans diagnosed with dementia — a number that is expected to more than double over the next two decades as baby boomers age — the findings are likely to fuel the debate about how much treatment is too much at the end of life....
To know the answer to that question you have to ask WHAT do the DRUG COMPANIE$ WANT?
Billions of dollars are spent each year in the United States on intensive treatments for older patients in the last six months of their lives, according to the 2008 Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. More than 80 percent of patients say they wish to avoid hospitalization and intensive care during their final days, the Atlas found, but those wishes are often overridden by other factors....
Gee, I wonder what tho$e could be.
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Related: Massachusetts Hates Its Elders
Also see: You Are Crazy if You Take Anti-Psychotics
But whatever you do do not stay at home!
That $eem$ to be the agenda-pushing Boston Globe'$ advice with thi$ companion piece:
"Elderly couple doomed when elevator stuck" by Associated Press | July 17, 2010
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — When the elevator in their home got stuck between floors, Sherwood and Caroline Wadsworth found themselves trapped with no way to call for help as temperatures rose into the 90s in the closet-sized lift until they finally died from heat exhaustion.
Autopsies on the elderly couple — he was 90, she was 89 — on Thursday pointed to a tragic end to lives they shared for more than 60 years. Police estimated they had been dead at least four days before a newspaper carrier called 911 out of concern after papers had piled up by their garage.
Yeah, it is; however, lots of POOR OLD PEOPLE DIE EVERY YEAR that way and they don't get an article about them.
Investigators were trying to determine what turned an elevator into a death trap inside the Wadsworths’ three-story home overlooking Georgia’s coastal marshes.
The Gulf gusher break their hearts?
Stunned family members, meanwhile, looked for a shred of solace.
“We always said we hoped they would go together because if one went, the other wouldn’t survive long,’’ the couple’s son, Wesley Wadsworth of Blue Bell, Pa., said Thursday. “They were so dependent on each other.’’
That's not the way you want them going.
It must have been terrifying for them.
The newspaper carrier called police Wednesday after noticing the unopened editions going back to July 9, as well as an untouched watermelon a neighbor had left at the couple’s door the day before.
Police had to break into the house because the doors were locked and bolted.
Hey, it is AmeriKa now.
Inside they found no one but the Wadsworths’ cat. Then they noticed the elevator — accessed by what looked like closet doors with up-and-down arrow buttons. Once the shaft was open, they found the elevator stuck between the home’s second and third floor.
The smell must have been horrible.
Police found the Wadsworths’ bodies lying in a fetal position, facing each other, Glynn County coroner Jimmy Durden said Thursday. Autopsies concluded both died from heat exhaustion.
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Related: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: You're Crazy If You Are Thinking Retirement
Yeah, keep working if you ain't dead yet so the elites can have even more, America.
