Maximal voluntary tongue pressure is decreased in Japanese frail elderly persons

Gerodontology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Tsuga, Kazuhiro ^a   Yoshikawa, Mineka ^a   Oue, Hiroshi ^a   Okazaki, Yohei ^a   Tsuchioka, Hirokazu ^a   Maruyama, Mariko ^a   Yoshida, Mitsuyoshi ^b   Akagawa, Yasumasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima City General Rehabilitation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

nursing care; oral function; quantitative evaluation; tongue pressure

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DAY CARE; EDENTULOUSNESS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MANOMETRY; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING CARE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWALLOWING; TIME; TONGUE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DAY CARE; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GROUP HOMES; HUMANS; JAW, EDENTULOUS, PARTIALLY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING CARE; PRESSURE; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE;

EID: 84861608414     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2011.00615.x     Document Type: Article

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