Eating problems in severely demented patients. Issues and ethical dilemmas.
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.
Norberg
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Department of Advanced Nursing, University of Umeå, Sweden.
Athlin
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D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations