Introduction: Palliative care aims at keeping the quality of life and comfort of patients
confronting life-threatening diseases. Patients in palliative care usually develop dysphagia …

Background. Speech therapy is important in palliative care and endof-life care of the
geriatric population. Comfort feeding is an option for such patients, but there is no guideline …

Objetivo Caracterizar as alterações relacionadas à deglutição e as principais intervenções e
condutas fonoaudiológicas em pacientes em cuidados paliativos, com disfagia orofaríngea …

Introduction: Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of people facing a serious or
incurable disease, through the prevention and relief of suffering and the treatment of pain …

ABSTRACT Patients in Palliative Care (PC) represent a public whose demand is great for
speech therapy, and because there is no standardized instrument for assessing the …

Introduction: Oropharyngeal dysphagia impacts on quality of life of persons under palliative
care. Objective: To discuss the literature about quality of life of adults and older people living …

Purpose: to describe the speech therapy aspects of patients treated by the palliative care
team in a hospital. Methods: an observational and cross-sectional study, performed from …

Introduction: Dysphagia and communication changes are common in life-limiting conditions
and Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) involvement to facilitate effective communication …

In the many considerations that arise during end of life care, swallowing problems are
common and may have a disproportionately large impact on the patient and family. Inability …

Comprehensive nursing care in situations of health vulnerability implies a complete analysis
from clinical and psychosocial references. Dysphagia, difficulty in swallowing, is an …