Are the barriers to good oral hygiene in nursing homes within the nurses or the patients?

Gerodontology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Willumsen, Tril ^a,b   Karlsen, Line ^c   Næss, Richard ^c   Bjørntvedt, Sissel ^a  

^a Dental Health Services' Competence East (TKO)   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Public Dental Health Services in Ostfold   (Norway)

Author keywords

behavioural problems; gerodontology; nursing home; oral health; oral hygiene; resistance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; EDENTULOUSNESS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH HYGIENE; NORWAY; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING HOME; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERIODONTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; EDUCATION, NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; JAW, EDENTULOUS, PARTIALLY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING HOMES; ORAL HYGIENE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERIODONTAL INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 84861607266     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2011.00554.x     Document Type: Review

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