Dental prosthesis plaque index of Augsburger and Elahi: Expansion and standardisation in community-dwelling frail older people.

Background: Inadequate daily oral hygiene care of dental prostheses could worsen general health of frail older people. The index of Augsburger and Elahi is often recommended to assess maxillary dental prosthesis plaque (DPP).

Objective: To assess the reliability of an expanded and standardised DPP index of Augsburger and Elahi in trained and untrained examiners, and to determine the applicability of the index in community-dwelling frail older people.

Oral health care services for community-dwelling older people with dementia: A scoping review.

Objective: To assess whether, and if so, which oral health care services for community-dwelling older people with dementia are available.

Background: Oral health in people with dementia is poor compared with people without dementia. Although multiple oral health care interventions have previously been studied for older people living in nursing homes, little is known about interventions or services for community-dwelling older people with dementia.

'Don't forget the mouth!': a process evaluation of a public oral health project in community-dwelling frail older people.

Background: Older people are encouraged to remain community dwelling, even when they become care-dependent. Not every dental practice is prepared or able to provide care to community-dwelling frail older people, while their ability to maintain oral health and to visit a dentist is decreasing, amongst others due to multiple chronic diseases and/or mobility problems. The public oral health project 'Don't forget the mouth! (DFTM!) aimed to improve the oral health of this population, by means of early recognition of decreased oral health as well as by establishing interprofessional care.

Oral Health Assessment Tool (OHAT) deputized to informal caregivers: Go or no go?

Objective: Investigating the usability of the Dutch version of the Oral Health Assessment Tool (OHAT-NL) with informal caregivers of community-dwelling older people with suspected dementia, without specific training.

Materials And Methods: In accordance with guidelines for establishing the cultural equivalency of instruments, the OHAT was translated into Dutch. Fifteen informal caregivers of community-dwelling older people with suspected dementia and, as a reference standard, a dentist assessed the oral health of the older people using the OHAT-NL.

Effectiveness of the implementation project 'Don't forget the mouth!' of community dwelling older people with dementia: a prospective longitudinal single-blind multicentre study protocol (DFTM!).

Background: The oral health of community dwelling frail older people is poor, and depends on the oral health care provisions available within their own community. The implementation project 'Don't forget the mouth!' (i.e.

Mind your teeth-The relationship between mastication and cognition.

This article explores the multifactorial relationship between mastication and cognition, with a focus on dementia. Older persons, especially those with dementia, are at great risk of suffering from oral health problems such as orofacial pain and loss of natural teeth. A possible explanation could be that the cognitive and motor impairments resulting from dementia cause a decrease in self-care and as such, a worsening of oral health.