Background People with dementia can have feeding and swallowing difficulties (dysphagia).
Modification of the consistency of food or fluids, or both, is a common management strategy …

Background: Dysphagia is considered a geriatric syndrome that is characterized by inability
to or difficulty in safely and effectively forming or moving the food bolus toward the …

Dysphagia is common—not only associated with stroke, dementia, Parkinson's but also in
many non-neurological medical problems—and is increasingly prevalent in ageing patients …

Objective Decision-making, when providing care and treatment for a person with dementia
at the end of life, can be complex and challenging. There is a lack of guidance available to …

Patients with neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) often experience functional dysphagia,
which may involve dysfunction in a specific phase of swallowing or in the entire process …

People with dementia frequently develop dysphagia (swallowing impairment), which causes
them to be at high risk of aspiration pneumonia, resulting in hospital admissions. These …

Dysphagia represents a salient concern in many conditions prevalent in older people. There
are direct implications for morbidity and mortality. The importance of recognizing and …

Tube feeding in dementia remains controversial as evidenced by recent responses to the
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) report on oral feeding [1]. Criticisms of non-oral feeding …

Purpose To explore caregiver perceptions of the socio-environmental issues around
evening meal ('teatime') which influence choking. Mealtime difficulties for people with …

Purpose To evaluate demographic, clinical, and laboratory variables, and their associations
with in-hospital mortality, among elderly internal medicine patients with nasogastric tube …