<br /><br /> ALIMENTAÇÃO ENTÉRICA NA PESSOA COM DEMÊNCIA: Efeitos, indicações e benefícios<br /> ENTERAL NUTRITION IN PERSON WITH DEMENTIA: Indication, effects and benefits

Abstract

Alimentação Entérica na pessoa com Demência:Efeitos, indicações e benefícios La nutrición enteral en el paciente con demencia: Efectos, indicaciones y beneficios Enteral nutrition in person with Dementia:Indication, effects and benefits veral areas: survival / mortality rate (no evidence of benefit), nutritional status (no improvement), functional status and cognitive development (no improvement), aspiration (enteral feeding does not reduce the risk of aspiration), pressure ulcers (no evidence of benefit in the incidence and progression of ulcers), quality life (without hard data in most studies). Conclusion:Evidence that tube feeding in people with dementia provides benefits was not conclusive, and may even have the opposite effect. There are still data on the adverse effects of these interventions.