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Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted
Sarah Boseley,
London
Guardian
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Thousands of elderly people are being forced to
have tubes fitted so they can be artificially fed if they want
to be admitted to a care home, a major report warns today.
There is no evidence that tube feeding prolongs life, and it
deprives patients of the pleasure and social contact involved
in normal eating and drinking, says a Royal College of Physicians
working group which recommends that artificial nutrition should
only be used as a last resort.
The report found that many care homes across the country are
making it a condition of residence that people, often in the
advanced stages of dementia, have a tube fitted into their abdomen.
"This is an invasive procedure with a risk, so it should
not be undertaken lightly," said Dr Rodney Burnham, chair
of the working group. "One of the concerns we had was that
we felt in many places there were cases where this was done
without proper thought.
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