A 93-Year-Old Man With Advanced Dementia and Eating Problems

The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes

“…Advance care planning and shared decision making are key processes in addressing feeding problems in cognitive impairment 3. Our results support other studies suggesting that residents living in NHs with greater engagement in advance care planning are less likely to be tube fed 8.…”

The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes

“…Advance care planning and shared decision making are key processes in addressing feeding problems in cognitive impairment 3. Our results support other studies suggesting that residents living in NHs with greater engagement in advance care planning are less likely to be tube fed 8.…”

Pain and hospice care in nursing home residents with dementia and terminal cancer

“…Nursing home residents enrolled in hospice were more cognitively intact and were more likely to receive an opioid. Despite the fact that severe dementia should lead to greater hospice enrolment, 32,33 we found that subjects enrolled in hospice were significantly more cognitively intact than those who were not. This cognitive status difference for enrolment is not explained by the data.…”

Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia: Knowledge and Practice of Speech-Language Pathologists

“…Family meetings with one or more members of the team should be held if needed and ethics consultation provided if there are enduring conflicts. 31 We agree with Pollens in including the SLP as an important member of the interdisciplinary team, especially in a palliative model, where the SLP can ''.assist in developing strategies that maximize the patient's ability to enjoy the pleasure of eating in as safe and comfortable a manner as possible.'' 32…”

The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes

“…Advance care planning and shared decision making are key processes in addressing feeding problems in cognitive impairment 3. Our results support other studies suggesting that residents living in NHs with greater engagement in advance care planning are less likely to be tube fed 8.…”

Pain and hospice care in nursing home residents with dementia and terminal cancer

“…Nursing home residents enrolled in hospice were more cognitively intact and were more likely to receive an opioid. Despite the fact that severe dementia should lead to greater hospice enrolment, 32,33 we found that subjects enrolled in hospice were significantly more cognitively intact than those who were not. This cognitive status difference for enrolment is not explained by the data.…”

Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia: Knowledge and Practice of Speech-Language Pathologists

“…Family meetings with one or more members of the team should be held if needed and ethics consultation provided if there are enduring conflicts. 31 We agree with Pollens in including the SLP as an important member of the interdisciplinary team, especially in a palliative model, where the SLP can ''.assist in developing strategies that maximize the patient's ability to enjoy the pleasure of eating in as safe and comfortable a manner as possible.'' 32…”

The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes

“…Advance care planning and shared decision making are key processes in addressing feeding problems in cognitive impairment 3. Our results support other studies suggesting that residents living in NHs with greater engagement in advance care planning are less likely to be tube fed 8.…”

Pain and hospice care in nursing home residents with dementia and terminal cancer

“…Nursing home residents enrolled in hospice were more cognitively intact and were more likely to receive an opioid. Despite the fact that severe dementia should lead to greater hospice enrolment, 32,33 we found that subjects enrolled in hospice were significantly more cognitively intact than those who were not. This cognitive status difference for enrolment is not explained by the data.…”

Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia: Knowledge and Practice of Speech-Language Pathologists

“…Family meetings with one or more members of the team should be held if needed and ethics consultation provided if there are enduring conflicts. 31 We agree with Pollens in including the SLP as an important member of the interdisciplinary team, especially in a palliative model, where the SLP can ''.assist in developing strategies that maximize the patient's ability to enjoy the pleasure of eating in as safe and comfortable a manner as possible.'' 32…”