Nutritional issues in palliative care based on evidence: worldwide and regional situation.

Second part: Ethical aspects and legal framework 

Autores: Fraga Ávila Claudia , Díaz Ramos Julio Alberto , Reyes Martínez Nora Ivonne, Gaxiola Jurado Nereida, Leal Mora David

Resumen

Soon, the number of elderly people worldwide will be about 2,000 million. In old age, disability and the presence of symptoms likely to receive palliative treatment occur due to chronic non-communicable diseases such as cancer. Academic education and training from health professionals allow palliative care to be applied at all institutional levels. The main objective of artificial nutrition and hydration is to provide food and water to seniors whose life and death quality can improve with these treatments. In this way, suspending or starting them at the end of life may be acceptable measures if they are consistent with the patient’s wishes and if it results from consensual decisions based on ethical principles. Ethical dilemmas at the end of life can be avoided through good communication with the patient and family and obtaining informed consent and advanced directives. The aim of this article is to present a detailed and exhaustive description of this scientific evidence of the worldwide and regional situations about nutrition and palliative care in the elderly.

Palabras clave: Aging nutrition palliative care.

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Vol. 3 Núm.2. Julio-Diciembre 2017 Pags. 67-72 J Lat Am Geriatric Med 2017; 3(2)