Factors associated with the maintenance in food texture for dependent older people with dysphagia living in nursing home - A retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: Maintaining the texture of the food that nursing home residents eat is critical for maintaining quality of life and preventing malnutrition. The aim of the present study was to identify the conditions necessary for maintaining food texture for this population.

Materials And Methods: The study included 143 people for whom reevaluation 1-year post-baseline was possible from among 256 dependent older people who consumed solid food on admission to a nursing home (baseline).

Usefulness of Telemedicine for Disabled Children Receiving Feeding Therapy.

We performed a retrospective cohort study using medical records of 374 pediatric patients who visited a university dental clinic specializing in dysphagia rehabilitation in Japan between 2019 and 2020 to clarify the usefulness of telemedicine among disabled children receiving feeding therapy. The primary outcome was the feeding developmental stage confirmed at the final evaluation. Propensity score matching was performed between individuals in two treatment groups (in-person and telemedicine) before the final analysis using patients' age, sex, primary disease, gross motor function, and feeding developmental stage as covariates.

Effects of oral ingestion on physical functions before tube feeding in adults with severe motor and intellectual disabilities.

This study aimed to determine the significance of oral ingestion in tube-fed adults. Six males and three females (mean age 48.1 ± 12.

Loss of occlusal support affects the decline in activities of daily living in elderly people receiving home care.

Purpose: This study aimed to clarify whether the absence of occlusal support would lead to a decline in the activities of daily living (ADL) in elderly people receiving home care.

Methods: The subjects of this study were 322 elderly individual aged 65 and older who were receiving home care during a one-year observation period. The subjects were divided into two groups according to the change in the total score of the Barthel Index (BI) during the prospective cohort study period (the dependent variable): the maintained/improved activities of daily living group, in which the score was unchanged or improved, and the worsened activities of daily living group, in which the score decreased.