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Okay, readers, how many of you desire to have a feeding tube inserted into your belly one day? Some of you? A few of you? All of you? Not me, that’s for sure. So, if there comes a time when I cannot ...

(HealthDay News) — The rate of feeding tube insertions in hospitalized patients with severe dementia varies by type of attending physician, according to a study published in the April issue of Health ...

Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, comatose patients in a Fairmount nursing home yesterday and cut their feeding tubes, said Philadelphia police Someone stole into the rooms of six elderly, ...

TOKYO – For the first time, Japan is trying to hold down the number of bedbound elderly people kept alive, sometimes for years, by feeding tubes. About a quarter-million Japanese elderly live on ...

Care homes are putting elderly patients at risk by forcing them to be fitted with feeding tubes, a report warns today. Many homes are said to be closing their doors to patients who do not have "nil by ...

In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often ...