Oral care help to maintain nutritional status in frail older people

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-128

  Sumi, Yasunori ^a   Ozawa, Nobuyoshi ^a   Miura, Hiroko ^b   Michiwaki, Yukihiro ^c   Umemura, Osami ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c MUSASHINO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Aichi Sannomaru Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dependent elderly; Malnutrition; Nursing home; Nutritional status; Oral care

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 77955272999     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2009.09.038     Document Type: Article

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