Hospice patients and nutrition

    • [DOCX File]National Council for Palliative CareGuidelines-V1.00-0267 ...

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      Hospice provides valuable services to persons dying with dementia at home, in the nursing home, or within an assisted living facility. Some demented patients may die from unrelated medical problems early in their disease, e.g., a mildly demented patient with cancer.

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    • Case 2: Nutrition/Hydration

      Educates and supports the patient and family about end-of-life issues (eg, pain and symptom management, prognosis, nutrition, hydration, hospice care, active dying) 19. Encourages patients and families to ask questions 20. Communicates information to the patient and family based on their level of understanding (eg, avoids jargon)

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    • [DOC File]Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) Assessment Toolkit

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      Jan 02, 2011 · Artificial nutrition may prolong survival in cancer patients who have difficulty in swallowing due to a local cause e.g. obstructing tumours such as throat cancers. However, for patients with cancer cachexia or those with other conditions near to death, there is no evidence that artificial nutrition lengthens survival or improves quality of life.

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    • Hospice

      Experiences of Oregon nurses and social workers with hospice patients who requested assistance with suicide. New England Journal of Medicine, 347, 582-588. Wheat, K. (2000).

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    • [DOC File]NUTRITION INTERVENTION PROTOCOL (NIP)

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      Objectives 8-3 and 8-4: Identify challenges and unique aspects associated with collecting specimens from pediatric and geriatric patients. Describe why a patient would require dialysis and how it is performed, and exhibit an awareness of the type of care provided for long-term care, home care, and hospice patients.

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    • [DOC File]MANAGEMENT OF DEMENTIA IN THE HOSPICE SETTING

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      hospice – supplemental application This is a Supplemental Application which attaches to and becomes part of the Lexington Miscellaneous Facilities Application. The Applicant represents that the statements and facts are true and no material facts have been suppressed or misstated.

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    • [DOC File]ETHICAL ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING

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      Patients with wounds. Patients difficult to wean from the ventilator. Dietitian judgment. The Dietitian may order, discontinue or change the following as the patient’s clinical condition warrants: Oral nutrition supplements – order, discontinue or changes specialized nutrition supplements.

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    • Hospice Nutrition & Care Guidance: End-of-Life Nutrition

      Hospice patients generally do not opt for PEG (stomach) tube placements, as this would be considered aggressive and invasive treatment. The most common method in place to treat patients with dysphagia is to feed them liquids thickened to a consistency that they are able to safely swallow (J. Long, personal communication, March 5, 2002).

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