Feeding a Person With Advanced Alzheimer’s Disease
| Autor: | Kathryn M. Kolasa, Margaret Clifton, William Miller Johnstone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Advance care planning 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Emergency department Disease medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Medical emergency Involuntary weight loss business |
| Zdroj: | Nutrition Today. 55:202-210 |
| ISSN: | 1538-9839 0029-666X |
| DOI: | 10.1097/nt.0000000000000430 |
| Popis: | We update our 2011 discussion of feeding the person with late-stage or advanced Alzheimer's disease (advanced AD) We present a case of a 92-year-old woman diagnosed with AD, from our family medicine practice who was brought to the emergency department with fever and a change in mental status Previously, neither she nor her family had received counseling about the typical trajectory of AD, nor had she made end-of-life plans We present a discussion of the typical trajectory of AD, involuntary weight loss, advance care planning related to nutrition, and hydration and alternatives to tube feeding We added a note describing the initial impact of COVID-19 on care © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc All rights reserved |
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