Despite society's increasing understanding of and comfort with end-of-life decision-making,
questions about the appropriate use of artificial hydration and nutrition remain particularly …

Context The best evidence suggests that feeding tubes are ineffective in persons with
advanced dementia. Little is known about their health care costs. Objectives To estimate …

Despite the many complications and minimal benefits associated with long‐term enteral
nutrition in patients with advanced dementia, it is, nevertheless, a widespread practice in …

Margaret A. Drickamer, MD* t and Leo M. Cooney, Jr., MDt lderly patients frequently have a
need for nutritional support. The introduction of the percuta-E neous endoscopically guided …

OBJECTIVES: Despite the evidence that feeding-tube use in persons with advanced
dementia is not associated with improved outcomes, there remains striking variation in their …

Enteral feeding (or 'tube feeding') is a very common inpatient intervention to maintain
nutritional status where the oral route is inadequate, unsafe or inaccessible. A proportion of …

This narrative review highlights topics related to feeding patients with dementia, including
the use of ethical principles and legal precedents; specifies guidelines and practice …

The terminal phase of dementia is initiated by the inability to swallow. New techniques of
enteral alimentation permit more effective, longer intubation. To assess the application of …

Several religious traditions are widely believed to advocate the use of life-sustaining
treatment in all circumstances. Hence, many believe that these faiths would require the use …

When close to death, people stop eating. In neurodegenerative conditions swallowing may
become unsafe, and artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) may be proposed or requested …