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NYT article on Minimal Comfort Feeding- a new frontier in Advanced Dementia

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NYT article on Minimal Comfort Feeding- a new frontier in Advanced Dementia https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/well/late-stage-dementia-minimal-comfort-feeding-advance-directives.html This shares a story of a family with a loved one with advanced dementia, and saw regular feedings as what was keeping her alive. They discussed with their doctors about Minimal Comfort Feeding - a new concept written about in the last couple years and presented at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine meeting last year, and the nursing facility called APS - eventually leading to the family taking the woman home to care for her themselves on an MCF plan. This was first written about recently and presented by the authors as an approach toward stopping eating and drinking in advanced dementia.…

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