Full article: Getting comfortable with “comfort feeding”: An exploration of legal and ethical
aspects of the Australian speech-language pathologist’s role in palliative dysphagia care Skip …

… oral feeding or “comfort feeding” has been promoted as a less burdensome and more comfort-…
Recent medical practice guidelines recommend against feeding tube use in patients with …

… the practice of comfort feeding among speech therapists. Thus, … The practice of comfort
feeding varies among different speech … -based guideline for comfort feeding is recommended. …

… Objectives: To perform a systematic review on the use of comfort feeding only in adult and
elderly patients receiving palliative care, to verify the use of speech-language pathology …

… Sensory techniques have typically been discussed in relation to pediatric feeding issues;
why not turn our attention to how they could be used with dining and swallowing in adults—…

… ; and the promotion of positive interactions surrounding feeding for family. Arguably, the …
meet patients' individual needs to maximize comfort without causing undue harm during this …

… wife comfortable through feeding her by hand instead of through a tube. We call this … Comfort
Feeding Only. The goal of this order is to focus on your wife's comfort and provide feeding to …

… comfort and eating satisfaction, and promote positive feeding interactions for family members
and (4) To communicate with members of the interdisciplinary hospice team, to provide …

… specific language disorders and a control group showed that children with speech language
disorders … Only 23 children (18.3%) were reported to have sucked their fingers for comfort. …

… and efficient feeding. These management decisions are typically made on the basis of clinic
feeding … is not the same as a feeding therapy program in which the goal is oral feeding. Both …