Advanced dementia patients are more likely to receive feeding tubes if they are taken from nursing homes to acute care hospitals, according to a new report. This occurs despite mounting evidence that ...

Fewer U.S. nursing home patients with dementia are getting feeding tubes as mounting evidence suggests it may not help them live longer or make them more comfortable, new research suggests.

Raising a significant dilemma for Catholic skilled nursing, hospice and hospital providers, Pope John Paul II has announced it is “morally obligatory” to continue tube feeding for individuals in need, ...

Large, acute-care hospitals that are for profit insert feeding tubes in nursing-home patients with advanced dementia more often than government-owned hospitals do, a new study finds. The feeding tube ...

Patients who are too ill to eat have been fed by temporary tubes for many years. But, large numbers of nursing homes are now rejecting these tubes in favor of tubes that are implanted into the stomach ...

Enteral nutrition is a cornerstone of supportive care in critically ill patients, and the methods for feeding tube placement have evolved markedly over recent decades. Early approaches relied on blind ...

Last year, Pennsylvania's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against 25 Golden Living nursing homes over allegations that the homes were so understaffed that residents were living in feces-smeared rooms ...

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