Measuring mealtime difficulties: eating, feeding and meal behaviours in older adults with dementia

Abstract

The EdFED has been identified as a valid and reliable instrument for measuring feeding difficulties and is available for use in clinical practice. In using the EdFED, interventions can be planned to monitor feeding difficulties and promote nutritional status of older adults with dementia.

Resistiveness to care during assistance with activities of daily living in non-institutionalized persons with dementia: associations with informal caregivers’ stress and well-being

“…For a recent comprehensive review of bathing disability, including BPSD occurring during bathing and best practices in reducing bathing-related BPSD, see Wolf and Czekanski (2015). Aselage (2010) describes that eating problems in persons with dementia include physical impairment with the task (such as difficulty chewing and swallowing), memory-related impairments (eating non-foods, not recognizing foods, or forgetting eating processes), and disturbances during feeding (agitation, resistance, and refusal; akin to RTC). Of the three ADL targeted in this study (bathing, eating, dressing), literature on behavior problems during dressing was the scarcest.…”

Measuring elderly dysphagic patients' performance in eating – a review

“…Previous reviews have focused on a narrow range of assessment tools [20], have only considered a single condition [20,21] or did not review the quality of the assessments' psychometric properties in a systematic manner [21,22]. Information about the criteria and consideration of psychometric properties of assessment tools to be used within occupational therapy are important for evidence-based practise [16].…”

Editorial: Nutrition and older people with dementia

“…The largest single group of papers published in JCN relevant to nutrition in older people with dementia are related to assessment, and these include the paper by Aselage (2010) referred to above. The nursing role in assessing nutritional status in adults is not clear (Green & Watson 2005), and whether nurses are really assessing nutritional status or merely screening for potential problems before alerting medical and dietetic colleagues is a controversial area, and this applies equally to the assessment of nutritional status in older people where the problems are very common, dietetic staff are usually in short supply and nurses are in the ‘frontline’ (Green & Watson 2006).…”