Mouth Care in Older Adults

This report discusses the importance of mouth care for older adults, highlighting the various dental issues they face, the susceptibility due to aging, and effective prevention strategies. It emphasizes the negative health impacts of poor oral hygiene and outlines nursing interventions to improve d...Read More

Care rational for mouth care in
elder adults

Table of Contents
Impact on patients from mouth care in older adults........................................................................1
Older adult patients more susceptible to this issue..........................................................................1
Prevention from these issues............................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

Impact on patients from mouth care in older adults
With time, there are different type of issues that are being faced by people among which
one of the issues is related with mouth care. Ageing can be determined as the main factors that
affects the mouth related problems. The rate of demographic of older adults in raising and an
increasing rate. This automatically increases the practices related with dental. There are different
type of issues that are caused due to dental problems (Pretty, Ellwood and Wolff, 2014). With
this respect, there are five type of dental problem, it includes Gum diseases, Mission teeth,
sensitivity, dry mouth and Oropharyngeal Cancer. These type of issues create problems in order
to have normal meal or drinks. All these issues has high negative impact over health. More
specifically, Osteoporosis affects the bones and this disease weakens them and it makes them to
get it broken easily (Ignatavicius and Workman, 2015). As per the findings, it is identified that
women are mostly affected with this disease when compared with men.
Older adult patients more susceptible to this issue
Due to age factor, the resistance of individuals to fight against disease get reduced. There
are many reasons due to which dental problems are faced. With this respect, reasons include
negligence of dental and oral health. It is essential to burst teeth twice a day (Bates, Saria and
Escobar, 2014). This can be determined as the most basic thing that should be performed.
Further, another cause is due to the personal habits. The type of food that is consumed raise the
risk of dental problems. Bacteria constantly multiply in teeth and they form up colourless and
sticky substance called plaque. Issues related to gum and decay is teeth is due to plaque. When
tooth pipe is damaged or injured, then it can be repair itself. Due tot his, cavity occurs and this
way bacteria enter the pulp and it infects the teeth from inside. Further, oral cancer is caused due
to consumption of alcohol and tobacco (Halvari, Halvari and Deci, 2013). As per the survey, it is
identified that 90% of oral cancer is caused due to cigars, cigarettes, sipping snuff or chewing
tobacco.
Prevention from these issues
As per the findings, it is identified that out of 5, 1 will have untreated tooth decay
(Romera, Orfila and Martí, 2014). This causes issues related to infection and pain. There are
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different ways that are applied by nurses with the help of which issues related to dental can be
reduced. In this context, below given are few strategies applied by nurses:
Fluoride varnish: It is helpful enough to re-mineralizes the tooth that are weakened.
Further, it also enables to prevent from 40% of cavity in primary teeth.
Dental sealants: It enables to provide physical barrier on the surface of chewing. This
way 80% of the cavities are reduced for 2 years.
Community water fluoridation: It is helpful enough to prevent tooth from getting decayed
(Liu, Galik and Resnick 2015). The rate of decayed teeth among children get reduced by 2.25%
with the help of community water fluoridation.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bates, D. W., Saria, S., & Escobar, G. (2014). Big data in health care: using analytics to identify
and manage high-risk and high-cost patients. Health Affairs. 33(7). 1123-1131.
Halvari, A. E., Halvari, H., & Deci, E. L. (2013). Oral health and dental well‐being: testing a
self‐determination theory model. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 43(2). 275-292.
Ignatavicius, D. D., & Workman, M. L. (2015). Medical-surgical nursing: Patient-centered
collaborative care. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Liu, W., Galik, E., & Resnick, B. (2015). Optimizing Eating Performance for Older Adults With
Dementia Living in Long‐term Care: A Systematic Review. Worldviews on Evidence‐
Based Nursing. 12(4). 228-235.
Pretty, I. A., Ellwood, R. P., & Wolff, M. S. (2014). The Seattle Care Pathway for securing oral
health in older patients. Gerodontology. 31(s1). 77-87.
Romera, L., Orfila, F., & Martí, N. (2014). Effectiveness of a primary care based multifactorial
intervention to improve frailty parameters in the elderly: a randomised clinical trial:
rationale and study design. BMC geriatrics. 14(1). 125.
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