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(UK) Hospitals treat Alzheimer’s patients so badly 'one in three carers complain'

November 14th, 2009 by The Telegraph Filed under Featured, Feeds, Free Republic, Politics.[3 views]
Even greater numbers of relatives and friends said they wanted to complain but had not, a new report by the Alzheimer’s Society shows. The figures are released just days after an independent review warned that 1,800 dementia patients are being killed every year by controversial ‘chemical cosh’ drugs given to keep them quiet. Carers told the charity of sufferers left to sit in their own urine and nurses who complained that they had too many patients to look after. The report also heard of patients going hungry because they were not helped to eat or drink and many were generally...

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