Feeding Tubes For Elderly Dementia Patients
In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often lacked necessary information for informed consent…
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Feeding Tubes For Elderly Dementia Patients
May 6, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer's / dementia, decision, diet, feeding-tube, five-states, necessary-information, often-lacked, on call diets, their-decision-making
