Demenz im klinischen Kontext
Ausgabe: 1/2022
68. Jahrgang
Ethische Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der Ernährung von Menschen mit Demenz
Nutrition of people with dementia leads to numerous ethical questions in practice. Starting from the sociocultural significance of nutrition for humans in general and persons with dementia in particular, this article reflects in an exemplary way on two ethical questions: first, the question of the use of artificial nutrition and second the question of the bindingness of dementia directives, emerged in the USA, which refuse oral feeding for the state of advanced dementia.
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