Oral Health Among Older Adults With Complex Needs Living in the Community and in Aged Residential Care Facilities within New Zealand.

Objectives: To describe the oral health status and dental service use of older adults with complex needs living within the community and aged residential care (ARC) facility settings, and to determine associations between dental service utilization and sociodemographic variables.

Design: Secondary analysis of 2 continuously recruited national cohorts.

Setting And Participants: Adults aged ≥65 years having standardized assessments between July 1, 2012, and May 31, 2018, within New Zealand and who provided consent.

Biomarkers of ageing in New Zealand VLBW young adults and controls.

Background: There is individual variation in physiological ageing. Former very low birthweight (VLBW; birthweight < 1500 g) young adults may have less satisfactory measurements on some physiological parameters than term controls. We hypothesized that a summation score of physiological biomarkers that change with age would show VLBW adults to have a more advanced physiologic age than controls.

The New Zealand 1986 very low birth weight cohort as young adults: mapping the road ahead.

Background: Very low birth weight (less than 1500 g) is associated with increased morbidity and costs of health care in childhood. Emerging evidence suggests these infants face a range of health and social problems as young adults. We studied all New Zealand very low birth weight infants born in 1986 (when 58% were exposed to antenatal corticosteroids) in infancy, with later follow-up at 7 to 8 years and 23 to 24 years.

Adults with intellectual disability: a mixed-methods investigation of their experiences of dental treatment under general anaesthetic.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the experiences of dental care under general anaesthesia in adults with an intellectual disability.

Methods: The study used an explanatory mixed-methods design. In the initial quantitative phase of the study, a clinical audit of oral health services provided for adults with intellectual disabilities was carried out for individuals who underwent a general anaesthetic (GA) for dental treatment at Christchurch Hospital during a 5-year period.

A qualitative study of oral health knowledge and attitudes among staff caring for older people in Dunedin long-term care facilities.

Over the next few decades, the number and proportion of older New Zealanders will increase, and many will retain their natural teeth. Many older people in care will be dependent on caregivers for their oral health care. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the dental knowledge and attitudes of staff caring for older people in Dunedin long-term care facilities.