Oral health care for frail older adults in nursing homes from a management perspective: a survey-based study
Lisa Bellander, Helle Wijk, Pia Andersson, Catharina Hägglin · 2025
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Lisa Bellander and co-authors (2025) surveyed nursing home leaders in Sweden about oral care for frail older residents. Mouth disease and poor hygiene are common in this group. Yet little work had asked managers about the problem. The team sent a 52-item web survey to 1,526 managers, coordinators, and registered nurses. It covered care needs, routines, training, barriers, and teamwork with dental services. About a third of them answered.
About half of the respondents rated residents' oral health as poor. Most said residents needed help with daily mouth care. The main barriers were staff who found the care hard to give and residents who refused it, often because of dementia. Regular staff training was named the strongest fix. Yet only about two in five homes trained staff regularly. The authors urge managers to fund training and closer dental teamwork.
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| CREATOR | Lisa Bellander, Helle Wijk, Pia Andersson, Catharina Hägglin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 70 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |