Senescent swallowing: Impact, strategies, and interventions

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 395-413

  Ney, Denise M ^a   Weiss, Jennifer M ^a   Kind, Amy J H ^a   Robbins, Joanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Deglutition disorders; Dehydration; Enteral nutrition; Malnutrition; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CALCIUM; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIAZEPAM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; MINERAL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PHENOBARBITAL; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN; RETINOID; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ADAPTATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ALERTNESS; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BODY POSTURE; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY FIBER; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FLUID INTAKE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOUTH HYGIENE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PNEUMONIA; POLYPHARMACY; PRESBYPHAGIA; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH TUBE; SWALLOWING; TUBE FEEDING; VITAMIN INTAKE; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DEHYDRATION; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; RISK FACTORS; TRACHEA;

EID: 67149109992     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533609332005     Document Type: Review

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