Feeding Living will Patient care Social worker 
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.”
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