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Even under assistedliving or full-time care, a person with dementia needs special attention to mealtimes in order to maintain proper nutrition. Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients. By mid-stage, dementia may cause a person to forget to eat or leave them confused about how to use appliances for food preparation.
Before feeding a patient or giving them a meal, ensure they sit upright. Whether you see patients in a home setting or an assistedliving facility, these tips can help reduce fall risk, prevent bed sores, eliminate choking hazards, and reduce fire hazards. Bed-ridden patients may wish to eat lying down.
Understandably, you may not have the financial resources necessary to house and feed more people, so you need to ask them whether they’ll be able to contribute. If you don’t have the finances necessary to handle another house member, this new living arrangement can put everyone in a serious predicament.
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assistedliving facility. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. Rehabbed to Death.
Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. He’s 91, lives in assistedliving, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection. It’s awesome. So I’ll be singing along to that. Matthew, I get the lyrics.
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Learn More As managers working in hospice, skilled nursing facilities, assistedliving, and even senior communities, part of our job is to educate our employees in end of life care. Staff will end up suggesting or even pushing IVs, feeding tubes, unnecessary medications, and providing inadequate pain management for patients.
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