Fewer U.S. nursing home patients with dementia are getting feeding tubes as mounting evidence suggests it may not help them live longer or make them more comfortable, new research suggests.

BOSTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) --Feeding tubes are used to prevent starvation of patients who cannot or will not eat food, but research has long questioned the benefits of using them with dementia patients ...

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 53-year-old visiting nurse in connection with the slashing of six elderly patients’ feeding tubes at Philadelphia Nursing Home. Joan Wood Barnes is wanted on ...

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. Researchers at Hebrew SeniorLife ...

Researchers examined feeding tube insertion rates from 2000-2014 among US nursing home residents with advanced dementia. In a study appearing in the August 16 issue of JAMA, Susan L. Mitchell, M.D., M ...

WASHINGTON - Nursing homes, facing a shortage of nurses, will be able to hire aides with less training to help residents with their meals, under new rules announced Thursday. The regulations, to be ...

Bush administration officials said that the rule will improve the quality of care in the face of a labor shortage in nursing homes. Alan DeFend, vice president of the American Health Care Association, ...

Gov. Cuomo called nursing homes the biggest concern for New York authorities battling the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday even as a lower overall total of 540 people died in the past day. The ...

Gov. Cuomo doubled down Sunday on the state’s controversial directive ordering nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients. The governor — who himself has described nursing homes as a “feeding frenzy’’ ...