Oral Health and Aging (eBook)

Christie-Michele Hogue, Jorge G. Ruiz (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
IX, 293 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-85993-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a comprehensive review of the assessment and management of older people's oral health care needs. Discussing recent initiatives to emphasize oral health promotion and prevention, the book describes improvements in pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches for special populations in geriatrics and illuminates the role of barriers to oral health care for older people. Divided into three sections, the book first explores aging and oral health, including age-related changes, epidemiology, nutrition, dysphagia, aspiration pneumonia, xerostomia and hyposalivation, management of periodontal disease and caries, systemic diseases that influence oral health, and considerations for chronic orofacial pain. The second section illuminates the ways in which frailty and other geriatric syndromes influence oral health care in older adults with a special focus on frailty, dementia, delirium and depression, and the delivery of oral health care to vulnerable geriatric populations in long-term care, home care, palliative care, and hospice. Lastly, the book addresses inequalities in the oral health of older minority populations, the disproportionate burden of oral disease and tooth loss, the contribution of these issues to further complications in comorbidities, the association of extended health literacy and periodontal disease, and the social and cultural conditions that might be altered or improved by healthcare programs and health policies.

Oral Health and Aging is a useful book written by an international group of experts and designed to educate geriatricians, primary care physicians, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, speech and language pathologists, dietitians, and health policy advocates.

Christie-Michele Hogue

Dental Director of TDVV Community Living Center (CLC)

Veteran Affairs Medical Center

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine

Department of General Medicine and Geriatrics

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, Georgia

USA

Jorge G. Ruiz

Veterans' Successful Aging for Frail Elders (VSAFE)

Associate Director for Clinical Affairs

Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center

Bruce W. Carter Miami VAMC

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Director, JMH/UM Geriatric Medicine Fellowship

Division of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine 

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Miami, Florida

USA

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2022
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 293 p. 39 illus., 36 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Schlagworte: dementia • frailty • Orofacial Pain • Periodontal Disease • tooth loss
• ISBN-10: 3-030-85993-2 / 3030859932
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-85993-0 / 9783030859930