title: Nutrition scandals hit the headlines - again.
abstract: The subject of nutrition for older people in acute care has arisen again in a particularly distressing manner. According to newspaper reports ( Rogers 2004 , Warrington 2004 ), a coroner is demanding a public inquiry into claims that hospital patients aged 65 to 93 were deliberately starved to death. He believes that this could be Britain's first case of forced 'mass euthanasia'.