OBJECTIVE: To describe the development and evaluation of a decision aid for long‐term
tube feeding in cognitively impaired older people. DESIGN: Before‐and‐after study …

Aims and objectives. To use the evolutionary method of concept analysis to identify
attributes, antecedents and consequences of mealtime difficulties providing direction for …

Aims and objectives To examine awareness of aged care home staff regarding daily food
and fluid care needs of older people with dementia. Background Older people in residential …

M any residents of long-term care facilities in the United States have dementia of the
Alzheimer's type. The majority of them are in mid-stage Alzheimer's disease, which is …

Objectives To test whether a decision aid improves quality of decision‐making about feeding
options in advanced dementia. Design Cluster randomized controlled trial. Setting Twenty …

OBJECTIVES: In advanced dementia, feeding problems are nearly universal, and families
face difficult decisions about feeding options. Initial interviews for a randomized trial were …

Aim. This paper reports a systematic review of the literature on interventions to promote oral
nutritional intake of older people with dementia and feeding difficulty between 1993 and …

Poor food and fluid intake and malnutrition are endemic among older adults in long-term
care (LTC), yet feasible and sustainable interventions that target key determinants and …

Functional feeding, the focus of this study, has two important aspects. Observations of meals
in institutional settings (Van Ort & Phillips, 1992) suggest that, at least in some settings, the …

OBJECTIVES: To identify nursing homes factors associated with the use of tube feeding in
advanced cognitive impairment. DESIGN: Descriptive study. SETTING: The On‐line Survey …