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Elder Abuse

The British Health Service Ombudsman has blasted the National Health Service for its care of elderly patients. A report says hospitals fail to provide "even the most basic standards of care" and details how elderly patients were given the wrong medicine, left in soiled clothing, and not given enough to eat or drink.

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