By ISRAEL21c —— Bio and Archives--July 5, 2017
Dr. Efraim Jaul, director of geriatric skilled nursing at Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, noticed that many patients with dementia — and especially those with Alzheimer’s disease — seemed more prone to developing pressure ulcers (bedsores).
It occurred to him that perhaps the significantly higher incidence of bedsores was not simply a result of the immobility of advanced dementia patients, as is commonly assumed.
“I wondered if they were really distinct diseases or if there could be any connection between them,” he tells ISRAEL21c.
Quantifying the phenomenon in his own hospital, Jaul found that 76 percent of geriatric patients with pressure ulcers had dementia, whereas only 32% of patients without pressure ulcers had dementia. -- More...The Comment section of online publications is the new front in the ongoing Cancel Culture Battle.
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