Overzealous in preventing falls, hospitals are producing an ‘epidemic of immobility’ in elderly patients
Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days confined to a hospital bed, allowed to get up only to use a bedside commode. Twigg, who was in her 80s, was livid about being stuck in a bed with side …
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