Optimizing nutrition and oral health for caregivers-intervention protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The focus of care has shifted from institutional care to home care. Family caregivers provide the majority of home care that allows an opportunity for their care recipients to live at home and avoid costly institutional care. The aim of this study is to describe the nutritional status, oral health, and quality of life of family caregivers over the age of 65 and their care recipients, and to evaluate the impact of individually tailored diet and oral health advice to their nutritional status and oral health.

Methods/design

Altogether, 250 family caregivers aged 65 or over, and their care recipients are studied in this prospective randomized population-based multidisciplinary 6-month intervention study. Participants are randomly allocated to the intervention groups o

SUBMITTER: Nykanen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8444374 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature