Hand-fed dementia patients see 40% lower risk of pneumonia than those who are tube-fed
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13 October 2022Hand-fed dementia patients see 40% lower risk of pneumonia than those who are tube-fed
A collaboration study led by researchers from the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has found that advanced dementia patients with feeding problems initiated on careful hand feeding had a risk of pneumonia 40% lower than those on nasogastric tube feeding. The research article is now published online in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
