Feeding assistance needs of long‐stay nursing home residents and staff time to provide care

SF Simmons, JF Schnelle - Journal of the American Geriatrics …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To describe the staff time requirements to provide feeding assistance to
nursing home residents who require three different types of assistance to improve oral food …

End-of-life issues in advanced dementia: Part 2: management of poor nutritional intake, dehydration, and pneumonia

M Arcand - Canadian Family Physician, 2015 - cfp.ca
Objective To answer frequently asked questions about management of end-stage
pneumonia, poor nutritional intake, and dehydration in advanced dementia. Sources of …

Nutritional intake: use of touch and verbal cuing

ME Lange-Alberts, S Shott - Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1994 - journals.healio.com
Many hospitalized elderly patients suffer from inadequate nutritional intake (Gupta, 1988;
Infante-Rivard, 1986; Mobarhan, 1987, 1991; Morley, 1 986; Rudman, 1 989; Sandman, 1 …

Voluntary stopping eating and drinking

JW Wax, AW An, N Kosier… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is a deliberate, self‐initiated attempt to
hasten death in the setting of suffering refractory to optimal palliative interventions or …