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What go-to resources do you recommend if patients would like to discuss voluntary stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as part of advance care planning, for example, for consideration should they develop advanced dementia in the future?

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How often are your older adult patients raising conversation topics around voluntary stopping eating and drinking (VSED) in your clinical practice?

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Geriatric Medicine · Brown University
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This will be very dependent on location, but traditionally, if this is becoming a topic, they should be referred to outpatient palliative care, and when the time is close, hospice, as most of these patients get significant symptoms. Lastly, depending on local laws, this might not be allowed for deme...

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