OBJECTIVE: To determine the preferences of nursing home residents regarding the use of tube feedings and to characterize the clinical, functional, and psychosocial factors that are associated with preferences. DESIGN: In-person survey. SETTING: Forty-nine randomly selected nursing homes. PATIENTS/...
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 nursing home residents with very severe and irreversible cognitive impairment.DESIGN: Descriptive, cross-sectional, population-based study...
This study uses Minimum Data Set data to describe trends in feeding tube insertion among US nursing home residents with advanced dementia between 2000 and 2014. Over the last 2 decades, research has failed to demonstrate benefits of tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia.,2 Expert opinion...
Objective: To determine the preferences of nursing home residents regarding the use of tube feedings and to characterize the clinical, functional, and psychosocial factors that are associated with preferences. Design: In-person survey. Setting: Forty-nine randomly selected nursing homes. Patients/...
Tube Feeding Supplies Making life easier for the home tube feeder is at the heart of everything U Deliver Medical does. Tube feeding supplies designed for nutrition delivery in hospitals do not meet the needs of the home tube feeder. We have the feeding tube supplies that the home tube feede...
At a later time, we will send you information about the use of CPR in nursing homes. We hope this information will prove helpful to you. As time goes on, and we come across further information on long term use of feeding tubes, we will share it with you. Harold Rubin, Coeditor http...
All individuals with severe dementia should be offered careful hand feeding. However, under certain circumstances, people with severe dementia have a feeding tube placed. In Taiwan, tube feeding rate in demented older home care residents is increasing; h
There was a greater likelihood in Boston than in Ottawa (68.7% vs 6.5%, P < .001) for tube-feeding decisions to be made in a nursing home (vs an acute hospital). In the combined cohort, 19.1% of patients had a living will, and only 47.9% of SDMs felt confident that the patients...
It is widely supposed that there is no benefit, including extended survival and decreased rate of pneumonia, in patients with severe dementia receiving enteral tube feeding (TF). However, there have been few studies comparing the frequency of pneumonia before and after TF in severe dementia. Metho...
The overwhelming majority have spent their lives feeding the Beast and now it will consume them. Hardly a surprise Reply Self+Exiled 12/11/2020 • Look at how many it has consumed and they do not know it. Not only in the US but around the world. I speak of an even larger beast...