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Mariana

(15,630 posts) Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:44 AM Nov 2020

Another factor in the very high death rate among nursing home residents

in addition to them being old and frail, is that many of them have Do Not Resuscitate orders, and/or Living Wills that prohibit them from being put on life support devices like ventilators.