Feeding Techniques for Dysphagia Management ne month after a cere-brovascular
accident, Mrs. D, 48 years old, continued to refuse to leave her room to eat and sent her …

Constance Dahlin is a nurse practitioner, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, and is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative …

Speech and language therapists (SLTs) are specialists in the management of
communication and swallowing disorders (dysphagia), however few are members of acute …

The client's ability to communicate is key to providing quality palliative end-of-life care. A
speech–language pathologist (SLP) can facilitate the patient's ability to communicate …

Purpose: With an ageing population, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can expect to
encounter legal and ethical challenges associated with palliative and end-of-life care more …

Purpose: It is well documented that dysphagia can negatively impact a person's quality of
life. Little, if any, formal training is given to a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in …

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Speech-language pathologists require a specialized set of skills to treat end of life (EOL)
patients with dysphagia. SLPs must advance their diagnostic and prognostic skills, adapt …

Purpose Dysphagia is common in the last days of life (Bogaardt et al., 2015). Patients
themselves, their families and caregivers, and health care professionals often struggle to …

Background: Difficulty swallowing is a well-documented symptom in head and neck cancer
and oesophageal malignancy. The frequency of oropharyngeal swallowing difficulties in the …