Saturday, November 2, 2019
Assistance With Eating and Drinking Only When Requested Can Prevent Living With Advanced Dementia
My latest article on advance VSED is in the November 2019 issue of JAMDA: The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine: "Assistance With Eating and Drinking Only When Requested Can Prevent Living With Advanced Dementia"
Thanks for the interesting post. I downloaded the article from our health sciences library and have a few questions. Do you have a specific dementia directive or template in mind for people to complete--such as Barack Gastner's Dementia Directive? Also, is it possible for the DPOA-HC to ask for eating/drinking to not be offered--even though a Dementia-Directive was not previously completed? This has actually occurred to a friend whose husband has advanced dementia. She no longer wanted feeding/fluids to be offered unless he was requesting these. The institution stated that she did not have that right to make the request for him even though she had a DPOA-HC, but not a dementia specific directive.
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