Swallowing difficulties are more common than most people realize. Stroke, neurological conditions, cancer treatment, aging—any of these can turn something as basic as drinking a glass of water into a ...

Beverage texture management sounds like a minor operational detail until you're the one responsible for getting it right. In a clinical ward, a memory care unit, or a home where someone has dysphagia, ...

Hospitalized patients with dementia and dysphagia are often prescribed a "dysphagia diet," made up of texture-modified foods and thickened liquids in an effort to reduce the risk for aspiration or ...

For hospitalized patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) and dysphagia, those receiving thick liquids are less likely to be intubated but have no difference in hospital mortality ...

Many of us are able to maintain proper nutrition and hydration by eating enough fruits and vegetables and remembering to drink water. But for the 590 million people worldwide living with dysphagia[i], ...

An older patient with dementia is in the hospital and has trouble swallowing. A speech pathologist recommends thickening the liquids the patient drinks with starch or gum and specifies how viscous her ...

Our ability to swallow is something we rarely think about — until it becomes all we can think about. Managing swallowing disorders (known as dysphagia) or helping older adults with the inability to ...