title: Eating problems in severely demented patients. Issues and ethical dilemmas.
abstract: A review of the research on eating problems in severely demented patients gives the impression that, although the general prognosis is bad, there are a lot of things that can be done quite easily that could improve the eating situation for the patient. The most important task, it seems, is to approach the problems from a broad enough perspective to make it possible to treat the patient as a human being first and as a demented patient only secondarily.
authors.affiliation: Department of Advanced Nursing, University of Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Norberg
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Athlin
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations