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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...