Objective: Where swallowing difficulties are chronic or progressive, or a patient is palliative,
tube feeding is often not deemed appropriate. Instead, patients continue to eat and drink …

Introdução Muitos dos sintomas apresentados pelos doentes em cuidados paliativos
culminam em disfagia e perturbações da comunicação. Objetivo Analisar a opinião dos …

Palliative care is specialized medical care offered to persons with serious health conditions,
with the goal to relieve or prevent pain and suffering, to manage burdensome symptoms …

Nutrition and hydration are emotive topics in many fields of health care. This can present
particular challenges towards the end of life where reduced hydration and nutritional needs …

Introduction: Many of the symptoms presented by palliative patients culminate in dysphagia
and communication disorders. Purpose: To analyze the opinion of palliative care patients …

Counseling is a key professional competence of speech and language therapists, along with
the diagnosis and treatment of communication disorders. Counseling activities are …

Background Aims Methods Discussion Hopkinson C, McKenna P, Wallace S Results Risk
Feeding Page 1 Commonly referred to as risk feeding (RF), many dysphagic patients continue …

This chapter will consider key literature and theoretical perspectives relating to end-oflife
care, palliative care and hospice care, with a particular focus on the relevance of speech …