Nutrition in advanced dementia: Tube-feeding or hand-feeding until death?

Geriatrics

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Sherman, Fredrick T ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TUBE FEEDING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

AGED; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0242443242     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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