Oral health among older adults in nursing homes: A survey in a national quality register, the Senior Alert.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate the extent to which the Revised Oral Assessment Guide-Jönköping (ROAG-J) is used by nursing staff routinely in nursing homes in Sweden and to describe oral health status of the residents.

Design

An observational, retrospective register-based study.

Methods

Data from different validated health assessments instruments, including ROAG-J, for the period 2011-2016 were obtained from the Web-based national quality register Senior Alert. The basis for the analyses was 190,016 assessments.

Results

About half of all residents had underwent at least one annual ROAG-J assessment (2014-2016). During the period 2011-2016, 42% of the residents (n = 92,827) were registered to have oral health problems. Significantly more oral health problems were found for

SUBMITTER: Bellander L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8046056 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature