{"id":9001,"date":"2017-12-20T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9001"},"modified":"2017-12-20T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:10:06","slug":"doing-more-harm-than-good-epidemic-of-screening-burdens-nations-older-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9001","title":{"rendered":"Doing More Harm Than Good? Epidemic of Screening Burdens Nation\u2019s Older Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Elena Altemus is 89 and has dementia. She often forgets her children\u2019s names, and sometimes can\u2019t recall whether she lives in Maryland or Italy.<\/p>\n

Yet Elena, who entered a nursing home in November, was screened for breast cancer as recently as this summer. \u201cIf the screening is not too invasive, why not?\u201d asked her daughter, Dorothy Altemus. \u201cI want her to have the best quality of life possible.\u201d Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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