While a healthy, balanced diet improves quality of life, people suffering from common symptoms of advanced dementia often have a weak swallow or lose the ability to swallow safely, especially toward ...

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma in patient care, you vote, and then we present an expert's judgment.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “This study helps to strengthen the evidence for careful hand-feeding, particularly for places where nasogastric ...

Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily. Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients ...

Tuesday was day five without a feeding tube for Terri Schiavo. Dr. Kyle Krohn said, "Usually, someone who's not receiving any food or water will probably not live more than one or two weeks." That's ...

ESPEN’s new ethics guide reframes medical nutrition as a clinical intervention, urging clinicians to prioritize patient ...

Detecting sarcopenia at baseline alongside markers of malnutrition could guide decision-making regarding the need for feeding tube placement in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma ...