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...guilt children feel about putting a parent in a nursing home can sometimes lead them to blame others for the death of their loved one. But what Leslie Oliva saw as her mother moved through three California nursing homes during the last three years of her life is part of a bigger, shocking tale the Federal Government will tell this week. The account is based on the most detailed look in more than a decade at some of the nation's nursing homes. "My mother experienced beating, malnutrition, dehydration and neglect," Oliva says quietly. "All three of the nursing homes...
...written statement provided to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Oliva says her mother Marie Espinoza, who was suffering from a degenerative brain disease, had bruises, bedsores and a broken pelvis within months after her 1995 arrival at the Orangetree Convalescent Hospital. Food was often left at the foot of her bed, out of her reach. She began to lose weight. "She always seemed to be starving or begging for water," says Oliva in her official account. At Extended Care Hospital, Espinoza suffered severe dehydration and bedsores. Last January she entered Palm Terrace Convalescent Center. The nursing home said...
...Oliva's tale will put a human face on a damning study by the General Accounting Office that will be the subject of hearings by the Committee on Aging this week. The panel has summoned two insiders--a former California nursing-home nurse and a current nursing-home inspector for the state--to offer firsthand accounts of the horrors. The women--called "Clara B." and "Florence N." by the committee--will speak from behind a screen to shield them from retaliation by the powerful nursing-home industry and the agency that provides care to California's elderly...
Here in Havana, Cubans are of very mixed minds about the Pope's visit. "So many people do not even know who the Pope is," says Enrique Lopez Oliva, a professor of religious history at the University of Havana. Is he a President, a businessman? Is Fidel paying him to come? Even many Catholics are ignorant of the papal biography and doctrinal bent. In a country where abortion ends roughly 40% of all pregnancies and copulation begins in early adolescence, Cubans will be shocked by John Paul II's stern views on sex. His reverence for the family will seem...
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