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Feedings Tube Tube - Articles
Feeding Tubes In Nursing Homes: Benefit or Abuse
by
My Elder Advocate
Posted
Sun 07 Mar 2010 12:15pm
By Jack Halpern
More than one-third of U.S. nursing home residents with advanced dementia have feeding tubes. About two-thirds of these have the tube inserted during an acute-care hospitalization.
Feeding tubes should only be used as a last resort because they lead to a loss of functioning, and can cause serious medical and psyc ...
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Feeding Tubes In Nursing Homes: Benefit or Abuse
by
My Elder Advocate
Posted
Sun 19 Dec 2010 8:35pm
By Jack Halpern
More than one-third of U.S. nursing home residents with advanced dementia have feeding tubes. About two-thirds of these have the tube inserted during an acute-care hospitalization.
Feeding tubes should only be used as a last resort because they lead to a loss of functioning, and can cause serious medical and ps ...
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Feeding Tubes For Elders: Benefit or Abuse?
by
My Elder Advocate
Posted
Wed 23 Jan 2013 12:00am
By Jack Halpern , CEO, My Elder Advocate
Imbedded in today’s
nursing home culture is a practice that has been notoriously associated with
elder abuse in nursing homes. Nationwide, many nursing home residents with
advanced cognitive impairment are tube fed (35% according to some studies),
despite no demonstrable benefit ...
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It's Feeding Tube Awareness Week!
by
Jessica K.
Posted
Wed 13 Feb 2013 9:53am
First, check out the cute photo album I made on the Thomas Marshall Does It All Facebook page to celebrate Feeding Tube Awareness Week.
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About Feeding Tubes
Feeding tubes can be intimidating. They can also be lifesaving. Education is the key to understanding how feeding t ...
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What Feeding Tube Awareness Week means to me
by
Michele Tomecko
Posted
Sun 10 Feb 2013 9:02am
It's funny how life works. Just last night as I was giving Kenny his cocktail of meds before bed, I remembered that today was the first day of Feeding Tube Awareness Week. Yeah, us mommies of special needs kids cling onto all awareness days, weeks and months because it makes us feel that what we are going through...we aren't going through it alon ...
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Feeding Tube Surgery
by
rettmom
Posted
Fri 15 Jul 2011 4:45pm
Wednesday was Brooklyn's feeding tube surgery day. For those of you who follow my blog you know that this has been a decision a long time in coming. Brooklyn has aways been a little peanut but she really is underweight these days and after a tough winter of sickness we knew it was time. Brooklyn did great as we waited for surgery...you know how i ...
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Considerations about getting a feeding tube - dysphagia
by
Jennifer J.
Posted
Wed 02 Jan 2013 10:52am
I have only had one client who has been tube fed. Making a decision about tube feeding is a difficult one. The decision needs to be made with all of the information you can glean. The doctor may suggest it, or the patient may have questions about whether or not tube feeding is a procedure that they might be interested in.
If the patient cannot m ...
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Feeding tube death highlights need for change
by
Action for Better Healthcare
Posted
Tue 24 Aug 2010 5:45am
By Kester Freeman
Former CEO, Palmetto Health
There was a case several years ago that involves a mistake involving a feeding tube being coupled with a tube that entered a pregnant woman’s vein, instead of with the tube that entered her stomach. It is such a sad story that not only led to the woman’s death but also to the death ...
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End of Life Care: The Feeding Tube Frenzy
by
MKirschMD
Posted
Sun 18 Mar 2012 6:00am
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 speak for myself, let this blog post serve as a statement of my philosophy that I do not wish to be subjected to everything that medicine may hav ...
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What Are the Dangers of a Feeding Tube in the Elderly?
by
My Elder Advocate
Posted
Sun 19 Dec 2010 8:49pm
By Samantha Bunch, eHow Contributor
Feeding tubes may be given to the elderly when they are unable to eat normally. Many times with age, the muscles in the throat will gradually cease to work. There are several potential complications related to having a feeding tube.
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