Health care professionals' perspectives on oral care for long-term care residents: Nursing staff, speech-language pathologists and dental hygienists

Gerodontology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Yoon, Minn N ^a   Steele, Catriona M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c University of Toronto   (Canada)

Author keywords

long term care; oral health; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; DENTAL ASSISTANT; DENTAL PROCEDURE; EDUCATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; MANPOWER; MOTIVATION; MOUTH HYGIENE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POLICY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SPEECH DISORDER; WORKLOAD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL HYGIENISTS; EDUCATION, NURSING; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LONG-TERM CARE; MOTIVATION; NURSING STAFF; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84861631417     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2011.00513.x     Document Type: Review

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