New research suggests that feeding tubes can cause or worsen pressure ulcers in elderly dementia patients — a finding that contradicts the commonly held belief that feeding tubes promote healing. In ...

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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 ...

Okay, readers, how many of you desire to have a feeding tube inserted into your belly one day? Some of you? A few of you? All of you? Not me, that’s for sure. So, if there comes a time when I cannot ...

(HealthDay News) — The rate of feeding tube insertions in hospitalized patients with severe dementia varies by type of attending physician, according to a study published in the April issue of Health ...

Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, comatose patients in a Fairmount nursing home yesterday and cut their feeding tubes, said Philadelphia police Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, ...

Care homes are putting elderly patients at risk by forcing them to be fitted with feeding tubes, a report warns today. Many homes are said to be closing their doors to patients who do not have "nil by ...

A Finnish doctor who used a test banned in 2005 to check whether a feeding tube had been wrongly inserted into an 84-year-old woman has been cleared of any negligence. An inquest into Andriana ...

Brielle Trice has had a feeding tube since she was an infant. — -- When Brielle Trice sits down at the dinner table she gets her own plate and food along with her parents and siblings, but the ...