BACKGROUND: The decision to start long-term tube-feeding in elderly people is complex.
The process by which such decisions are made is not well understood. The authors …

OBJECTIVES: Many factors affect the decision to institute long‐term tube‐feeding in older
persons. The objectives of this cross‐national survey are to examine the tube‐feeding …

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 …

Tube feeding decisions in the elderly can be challenging, especially decisions fo r
coenitivelv impaired patients. Insofar as artificial nutrition or tube feeding is a medical …

Abstract Background In Japan, there is no decision-making guide regarding long-term tube
feeding that specifically targets individuals making decisions on behalf of cognitively …

Objective To determine the relative importance of factors influencing physicians to use tube
feedings in patients lacking decision‐making capacity. Design Survey. Setting and …

Compares the decisionmaking (DM) process regarding the initiation of tube feedings in the
severely demented elderly to that of the withdrawal of tube feedings from patients in …

When eating difficulties arise, feeding tubes are not recommended for older adults with
advanced dementia. Careful hand feeding should be offered because hand feeding has …

Objective: To determine choices about enteral tube feeding and factors associated with
deciding to accept or forego this intervention in a group of ambulatory non‐demented older …

Objective: To determine attitudes of physicians toward the limitation of tube feeding in
chronically ill nursing home patients and the influences of patient preferences and other …