Diet and Nutrition in Palliative Care

Professor Victor R. Preedy is the Director of the Genomics Centre in the department of Nutrition and Dietetics at King’s College in London.

SETTING THE SCENE
Definition, goal, purposes
V.R. Preedy
Enlightening the need for a specialized interest in food and nutrition in palliative care
Defining palliative, end of life and terminal care
Religion faith and end-of-life decisions
H-H Bulow
Pain control and sedation at the end of life
N.J. Cherny
The Nurse and end-of-life decisions
A. J. E. De Veer
Sedation in palliative care and its impact on nutrition
K.C.P. Vissers
CULTURAL ASPECTS
Nutrition in palliative care: Western perspectives
M.P. Fuhrman
Nutrition in palliative care: Japanese perspectives
T. Morita
Nutritional support in palliative care: Chinese perspectives
W.-Y. Hu
Cultural aspects of forgoing of tube feeding in dying American and Chinese patients
S.M.C. Pang
GENERAL ASPECTS
Gastrointestinal side effects in tumor therapy: Implications for nutrition
F. Mayer
Support for hydration at end of life
R.L. Fainsinger
Palliative treatment of dysphagia
C.P. Selinger
Artificial nutrition, advance directives and end of life in nursing homes
C.A. Monturo
Home nutritional support in end of life
S. Antoun
Preparing hospice families for home: diet and nutritional aspects
K. A. Kehl
Fatigue in hospice cancer patients: what nutritional variables does it correlate with
Y.-H. Lai
Hospice patients and help in mouth care and eating and drinking
J.e. Munn
Drugs and constipation in hospice patients
D. Weschules
CANCER
Vitamin deficiency in patients with terminal cancer
D. J. Harrington
Total parenteral nutrition in life-limiting cancer
A.P. Abernethy
Incurable cancers and home total parenteral nutrition
A. Jatoi
Nutritional aspects of palliative in head and neck cancer
N.E. Goldstein
Nutrition and palliative care in End of Life Ovarian Cancer
L.J. Herrinton
The relationship between nutrition and quality of life in palliative care of cancer
C. Pichard
Nutrition and palliative total pharyngo-Iaryngo-esophagectomy
T. Shinozaki
Nutrition and euteral stenting in palliative of cancer
P. Fockens
DEMENTIA
Feeding in advanced dementia: a palliative approach
A.E. Volandes
Nutritional therapy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
K. Kollewe
OTHER CONDITIONS
Nutrition in the palliative care of surgical patients
G.P. Dunn
Nutritional support in the vegetative state
M. Luchetti
Nutrition and palliation in chronic wounds
O.M. Alvarez
Nutritional support in the palliative care of adult BIV/AIDS patients
D.J. Wantland
Nutrition and palliative care of children with BIV/AIDS
A.J. De Baets
Antioxidants in palliative care and drug induced osteoporosis
S.N. Chavan
Nutrition and terminal renal failure
J. Dotsch
WITHHOLDING NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT
Withholding nutritional support: what is the process
M. Hynninen
Withholding nutritional support in the ICU
M. Heaney
Comparisons of withholding support in Six European Countries
H.M. Buiting