[Nutritional management of advanced dementia: summary of recommendations of the SENPE Ethic Group]

Nutr Hosp. 2019 Aug 26;36(4):988-995. doi: 10.20960/nh.02723.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract
in English, Spanish

This paper from the ethics Working Group presents a summary of the recommendations of the nutritional management of patients with advanced dementia.

En este documento del Grupo de Trabajo de Ética se presenta un resumen sobre las recomendaciones del manejo nutricional de pacientes con demencia avanzada.

Keywords: Demencia avanzada. Nutrición. Sonda. Enteral..

Publication types

  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Aged
  • Deglutition Disorders / diagnosis
  • Dementia / complications*
  • Eating
  • Enteral Nutrition* / ethics
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders / etiology
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders / therapy
  • Food Quality
  • Humans
  • Malnutrition / etiology
  • Malnutrition / therapy*
  • Societies, Medical
  • Terminal Care / ethics
  • Treatment Refusal