Many patients with dementia lose the ability to feed themselves in the advanced stages of
the disease. Tube feeding is sometimes initiated to overcome feeding difficulties. Recent …

Aim: Enteral tube feeding for people with advanced dementia who have difficulty swallowing
and poor nutritional intake is common. Potential benefits or harms of this practice are …

Objectives The current study aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to
explore the efficacy and safety of tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia. Design …

Background. The prolongation of life is an important consideration in the decision to initiate
long-term tube feeding. This report critically synthesizes the evidence regarding the impact …

Tube feeding in dementia remains controversial as evidenced by recent responses to the
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) report on oral feeding [1]. Criticisms of non-oral feeding …

Objectives To examine survival with and without a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
(PEG) feeding tube using rigorous methods to account for selection bias and to examine …

OBJECTIVE: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become the preferred
method to provide enteral tube feeding to older adults who have difficulty eating, but the …

Feeding Tube Placement in Patients With Advanced Dementia: The Beliefs and Practice Patterns
of Speech-Language Pathologists | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ASHAWire …

OBJECTIVES: Many factors affect the decision to institute long‐term tube‐feeding in older
persons. The objectives of this cross‐national survey are to examine the tube‐feeding …

Background: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes are commonly utilized as a
method of enteral feeding in patients unable to obtain adequate oral nutrition. Although …