Patients with advanced dementia frequently develop eating difficulties and weight loss.
Enteral feeding tubes are often used in this situation, yet benefits and risks of this therapy …

Patients with advanced dementia are among the most challenging patients to care for
because they are often bedridden and dependent in all activities of daily living. Difficulty with …

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 …

Tube Feeding and Advanced Progressive Dementia - POST - 2001 - Hastings Center Report -
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Aim: Enteral tube feeding for people with advanced dementia who have difficulty swallowing
and poor nutritional intake is common. Potential benefits or harms of this practice are …

Objectives The current study aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to
explore the efficacy and safety of tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia. Design …

OBJECTIVES: This study was undertaken to determine the degree to which selected
demographic and clinical variables are associated with the use of feeding tubes in older …

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has evolved into a common low-risk
procedure in current medical practice. Clinical evidence supporting the use of tube feedings …

Feeding and eating difficulties leading to weight loss are common in the advanced stages of
dementia. When such problems arise, family members are often faced with making a …

A byproduct of the aging of the population has been a dramatic rise in the rate of Alzheimer's
disease and other types of dementia. A conservative estimate is that there are currently 4 …