Jill McClennen asked me to come back on her “Seeing Death Clearly” podcast. This time the topic was “End-of-Life Nutrition & Hydration.” We covered feeding tubes as they relate to swallowing difficulties following a stroke, cancer, or dementia. We also talked about the normal loss of appetite in the dying patient. We spent some time discussing “voluntarily stopping eating and drinking” (VSED) both for the competent patient and by advance directive for the dementia patient.

 

I discussed VSED in a previous blog post here.

Here is the link to the podcast on Jill’s website.

Here is the link to Apple Podcasts

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