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: To examine family member's perceptions of decision‐making and outcomes
of feeding tubes. DESIGN: Mortality follow‐back survey. Sample weights were used to …

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 …

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes are being placed with increasing frequency in
the United States among elderly patients with dementia. Health care providers believe there …

The need for tube feeding was evaluated in six patients with clinical diagnosis of probable
dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). Four patients were fed by a nasogastric tube for a …

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 …

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 …

Background. There is a lack of prognostic data regarding tube feeding of institutionalized
elderly people. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of feeding tubes on …

For nursing home residents with advanced dementia, very little evidence is available to
show clinical benefit from enteral tube feeding. Although no randomized clinical trials have …

Discusses the financial incentives for placing feeding tubes in nursing home residents with
advanced dementia. Lack of comparison between older persons with final stages of …