Oral-motor function in older people: Exploring new dimensions of frailty.

Background: Oral-motor performance for speech and swallowing, and verbal fluency represent important domains that can determine frailty thresholds in older people.

Objectives: The study aims to explore the association between oral-motor performance and verbal fluency to achieve a comprehensive measurement of the frailty phenotype.

Methods And Procedures: An exploratory and inferential cross-sectional study was carried out in two nursing homes and 2 day care centres.

Verbal Fluency Tasks: Effects of Age, Gender, and Education.

Objectives: This study presents data for semantic fluency, phonemic fluency, action fluency, and alternate fluency. The aim is to provide normative data by age, gender, and education for European Portuguese in each fluency category.

Methods: Norms for the verbal fluency task were collected from a volunteer population of 444 healthy Portuguese participants.

Measuring Outcomes for Dysphagia: Validity and Reliability of the European Portuguese Eating Assessment Tool (P-EAT-10).

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and the reliability of the European Portuguese version of the EAT-10 (P-EAT-10). This research was conducted in three phases: (i) cultural and linguistic adaptation; (ii) feasibility and reliability test; and (iii) validity tests. The final sample was formed by a cohort of 520 subjects.