He closed down two-thirds of the hospital, cut the number of ambulances in half and told his elderly patients they should walk to hospital because it was good for them.

他关闭了当地三分之二的医院，减少了一半的急救流动站，并且告诉那些年老的病患，为了身体健康，他们应该走路去医院。

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On Earth, elderly hospital patients can lose more than a kilogram of muscle in just three days of lying in bed.

在地球上，年老的病人在病床上三天就可以失去一公斤肌肉。

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Nurses using new technologies to care for patients, including the elderly, in their homes have been shown to reduce the number of hospital readmissions and visits to emergency wards.

有证据显示，护士使用新技术在患者(包括老年人)家里提供护理有助于减少重新住院和进入急诊病房的次数。

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The intensive care patients were then compared to elderly patients assigned to other hospital units or in the general Medicare population.

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On Friday, January 26, "Angel of Death" defendant Efren Saldivar, accused of killing six elderly hospital patients in California, is scheduled for arraignment.

CNN: Friday,

Following the Care Quality Commission's recent report on what it called "alarmingly" poor care for elderly hospital patients, leading nurse Prof Ian Peate says in this week's Scrubbing Up that the profession should look again at how it trains people to look after older people.

BBC: 'Shame on us nurses'