介護老人保健施設の要介護高齢者の生活状況と口腔内環境の関連(人間科学編)

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the relation between the life situation and the oral condition of elderly residents in a nursing home as a help for usual caring stuffs to understand the symptom of deterioration of the state of the mouth from an observation of daily life operation. In this study we have observed dependent elderly necessary helps by the ocular inspection of the state of mouth as well as the function and the cleaning level in the mouth, the examination of FIM (Functional Independent Measure which is one of the indices of ADL) and the observation of the action of daily life operation. In the examination of FIM the life independence level was evaluated by three stages. The daily life operation was evaluated to four items by three stages. Making use of the Kruskal Wallis test these observations and examinations are analized, three results were obtai ned. First, foul breath of the elderly "necessary all helps" were conspicuous compared with other elderly. Secondly, mouth cleaning situation of elders "necessary a part of help" was worse than others. Thirdly, number of untreatment teeth of elders "not possible to do" was more than of elders "possible to do with a supplementary tool". As the conclusion, the importance of the execution to recover the mouth function as well as the cleaning purpose was shown as for mouth caring for elderly "necessary all helps".
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