Determinants for preventive oral health care need among community-dwelling older people: a population-based study.

The aim was to study the determinants of preventive oral health care need among community-dwelling old people. The study population consisted of 165 participants, a subpopulation in the Geriatric Multidisciplinary Strategy for Good Care of Elderly People (GeMS) study. Fifty-five percent of the edentate participants with full dentures and 82% of the dentate had a need for preventive oral health care.

Oral health intervention among community-dwelling older people: a randomised 2-year intervention study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 2-year oral-health-promoting intervention on oral health behaviour and oral health among people aged 75 years or older.

Materials And Methods: In a 2-year randomised intervention study, 279 community-dwelling older people completed the study: 145 persons in an intervention group and 134 in a control group. Interviews and clinical oral examinations were performed at the beginning of the study and at a 2-year follow-up.

Salivary flow rate and risk of malnutrition - a study among dentate, community-dwelling older people.

Objective: To analyse the relation between unstimulated and stimulated salivary secretion and the risk of malnutrition among home-dwelling elderly people.

Background: Saliva has an important role in eating. Despite this, there are only a few studies on the role of salivary secretion in the development of malnutrition among elderly people.

Associations of instrumental activities of daily living and handgrip strength with oral self-care among home-dwelling elderly 75+.

Objective: To study the associations of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and the handgrip strength with oral self-care among dentate home-dwelling elderly people in Finland.

Materials And Methods: The study analysed data for 168 dentate participants (mean age 80.6 years) in the population-based Geriatric Multidisciplinary Strategy for Good Care of the Elderly (GeMS) study.

Preference for dentist's home visits among older people.

Objectives: To investigate factors associated with older people's preference for a dentist's home visit.

Methods: This is a report on 321 home-dwelling participants (mean age 81.6) in the population-based Geriatric Multidisciplinary Strategy for Good Care of the Elderly (GeMS) study, conducted in 2004-2005 in the city of Kuopio in eastern Finland.

Dementia and oral health among subjects aged 75 years or older.

Objective:  To study the association between diagnosed dementia and oral health, focusing on the type of dementia, among an elderly population aged 75 years or older.

Background: Elderly people with dementia are at risk from oral diseases, but to date, only a few studies have analysed the association between type of dementia and oral health, and their results are inconclusive.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study is based on the Geriatric multi-disciplinary strategy (Gems) study that included 76 demented and 278 non-demented subjects.