Impact of The Nurses on Maintaining Oral Health in Institutionalized Elderly (original) (raw)
Dental and oral care are important for institutionalized elderly because oral diseases can have a negative impact not only onquality of life but also on general health. Maintaining adequate oral hygiene among the institutionalized elderly is most important,especially on patients that need help for basic or additional oral and dental care. Most often responsible for maintaining oral hygiene are the persons responsible for long-term care of the institutionalized elderly - nurses and paramedics. The education of stuff responsible for institutionalized elderly includes the usage of appropriate lectures with adequate audiovisual effects,appropriate presentations and exercises and discussions among the participants. For adequate dental care of the institutionalized elderly, it is necessary for the elderly, as well as the staff responsible for their care, to be highly aware and motivated to pay enough attention to oral health and hygiene, as well as wearing dentures. Oral health programs a...
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