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...unseen father of the film Where's Poppa? must have read Ralph Nader's latest report before he made his sons promise him on his deathbed that they would never put their mother in an old folks' home. For, as Nader made clear last week in a report to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Momma may be far better off sharing an apartment with a homicidal son than in many of the nation's 24,000 nursing homes...
Researched by a team of six student volunteers and a teacher who observed Washington, D.C., nursing homes and studied masses of state and federal documents, Nader's report is a passionate indictment of the industry that provides care to at least one million of the 20 million Americans over age 65. Among its findings...
...point where one home had only three people to cover an intensive-care floor of more than 50 patients. Those who are employed are often poorly trained for their jobs. As a result, many patients have waited hours for medical care. Cruelty to patients is also common, report Nader's Raiders, whose personal journals record instances in which elderly people have been abused by nursing personnel...
...Medical procedures in nursing homes are slipshod. In many cases, the doctors supposedly responsible for individual patients are unavailable when needed. Doctors who actually visit the homes often exercise insufficient caution and supervision over drug prescriptions. In one example cited by Nader, a doctor who had been administering an experimental drug justified his action by producing a release signed with an "X"; the patient had been judged senile three years before...
...Governmental regulation of nursing homes is inadequate. According to Nader, there have been "neither the full-fledged congressional hearings, nor the enforcement of adequate federal and state standards, nor the administrative inquiries and disclosures that are needed to reduce the institutional violence and cruelty that are rampant...