Word: pompano
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...guilt and recrimination that entails. A state attorney accused 87-year-old Ruth Hoffmeister of wanting to starve her husband to death. Every evening for the past six years, Ruth has spoon-fed her husband Edward, who has Alzheimer's disease. When he began losing weight, their Pompano Beach, Fla., nursing home would have been obliged by state regulations to force-feed him through a tube. Ruth protested the bureaucratic intrusion. "There is nothing so important to an Alzheimer's patient," she insisted, "as a familiar touch and a familiar voice." She went to court to stop them...