Strategies of oral hygiene care for healthy aging: insights from elderly care in Taiwan
Ming-Kuo Chen, Patrick Pang, Yi-Huang Shih, Ting Liu, Huiwen Zou · 2026
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Ming-Kuo Chen and colleagues examined in 2026 oral hygiene care as part of healthy aging, drawing on elderly care experience in Taiwan. Their article argues that oral frailty, the slow loss of mouth function, deserves a place among core healthy-aging measures. Research they cite ties oral frailty to older age, many chronic illnesses, poor nutrition risk, low mood, and shrinking daily independence.
Taiwan's path since 2010 is offered as a governance model for societies where older people now outnumber the young. The authors explain how tooth loss, dry mouth, and weak chewing cut food variety and can feed weight loss, muscle loss, and low immunity. Mouth infections also link with heart disease, diabetes, lung infection, and dementia in the studies reviewed. They urge care systems to treat the mouth as the first line of defense in later life.
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| CREATOR | Ming-Kuo Chen, Patrick Pang, Yi-Huang Shih, Ting Liu, Huiwen Zou |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |