Is tube feeding futile in advanced dementia?

MC Lynch - The Linacre Quarterly, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… to be objectively disproportionate care, and thus they argue we should take steps to limit its
use even when a patient's preferences would be inclined to accept it. This would be ethically …

[HTML][HTML] A matter of taste? Quality of life in day-to-day living with ALS and a feeding tube

J Pols, S Limburg - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2016 - Springer
… authors argue that the decision to insert a feeding tube should … Others authors argue, however,
that dysphagia itself may be a … So at a certain moment… We have a very good doctor and …

Dilemmas for guardians of advanced dementia patients regarding tube feeding

E Gil, M Agmon, A Hirsch, M Ziv, A Zisberg - Age and Ageing, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… G is certain that the present war is like that which she waged for her mother when she was
… advantage in tube feeding for dementia patients must dictate its practice: they argue that the …

The quality of time and its quantifications. Negotiations about the feeding tube at the end of life

J Pols - European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics, 2019 - enhe.eu
… In our 2015 paper on quality of life we also argued that there … of anticipating and living with
feeding tubes, people with ALS … (a certain state of the world, or presence of certain features, …

Tube feeding in individuals with advanced dementia: a review of its burdens and perceived benefits

EO Ijaopo, RO Ijaopo - Journal of Aging Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… with feeding tubes than those without tube feeding [62]. More so, nursing home residents
with advanced dementia receiving tube feeding … While it may be clinically evident in certain

Between choice, necessity, and comfort: deciding on tube feeding in the acute phase after a severe stroke

I Frey, ME De Boer, L Dronkert, AJ Pols… - Qualitative health …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
arguments made by the participants. After a first round of coding, we decided to narrow our
analysis down to the decision on whether to start or stop tube feeding, … start a certain process […

Should we aim for full enteral feeding in the first week of critical illness?

SA McClave, P Codner, J Patel, RT Hurt… - Nutrition in Clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… , other data do indicate that in certain well-defined patient … A teleologic argument is made
that feeding disrupts the fight/… of goal calories received from tube feeding was registered as 0%. …

[PDF][PDF] Managing eating disorders in elderly with dementia and the ethical considerations for tube feeding

SC Lim, PCL Chow - Int J of Psych, 2018 - opastpublishers.com
… , pneumonia, dislodged feeding tube, medical complications arising from poor feeding and
dehydration. It is important to understand the aetiology of poor feeding among this group of …

Decisions on life-sustaining therapy: nutrition and fluid

S Briggs, MJ Vernon - Medical Ethics and the Elderly, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
… Can the absence of nutrition be beneficial in certain cir… who decided to accept tube feeding
for their elderly incompetent … Others might argue that we are obliged to remove the tube out of …

[PDF][PDF] 'It's Just Food, Blended': Exploring Parents' Experiences of Choosing Blended Diet for Their Tube-fed Child

S Durnan, A Toft, H Flaherty - 2018 - pure.coventry.ac.uk
… The term tube-feeding or tube-fed used throughout this thesis refers to enteral tube-feeding.
Enteral tube-feeding is the delivery of nutrition and hydration via …