New cases of antifungal-resistant yeast infections in nursing homes alarm CDC
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 26, 2021
For the first time, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has identified U.S. nursing home residents and hospital patients with candida auris yeast infections that resist all first-line antifungal...
Feeding tube use cut by 50% in nursing home residents with dementia, study finds
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 17, 2016
The proportion of long-term care residents who had advanced dementia and received feeding tubes dropped by 50% between 2000 and 2014, according to a new analysis.
Acute care hospitals more likely to use feeding tubes on dementia patients from nursing homes, study...
Feb 11, 2010
Advanced dementia patients are more likely to receive feeding tubes if they are taken from nursing homes to acute care hospitals, according to a new report. This occurs despite mounting evidence that using...
Feeding tubes at end of life should be last resort, researchers say
Jan 07, 2010
There is no real benefit to using feeding tubes to care for those approaching the end of life. They should be considered only as a last possible option, according to a report from the Royal College of...