Twenty-five years of the EdFED scale: a useful scale for measuring mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia.

The 'EdFED' is the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia (EdFED) scale. 'Ed' points to where the scale was developed – Edinburgh University – and 'FED' is shorthand for 'feeding'. Finding a meaningful acronym is always challenging, but this one seems to have worked: once understood, it is easy to recall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]