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Working together to learn new oral hygiene techniques: Pilot of a carepartner-assisted intervention for persons with cognitive impairment.
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- Care partner-assisted intervention to improve oral health for older adults with cognitive impairment: A feasibility study.Gerodontology · 2021Trial
- Toothbrushing Ability in Older Adults Across Stages of Cognitive Impairment.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Behavior change techniques in a care partner-assisted oral health intervention for people with mild dementia: a secondary mixed-methods analysis.Innovation in aging · 2026Article
- Insights from recruiting individuals with mild dementia and care partners for a multi-site oral hygiene intervention.Aging and health research · 2025Article
- Comprehensive Strategies for Preventive Periodontal Care in Older Adults.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Implementation of the Expert Nursing Standard: Caregivers' Oral Health Knowledge.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comparing the Experiences of Participants With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia During an Oral Health Intervention.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- The Influence of Context on Implementation and Improvement: Protocol for a Mixed Methods, Secondary Analyses Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- [Dental care for older people: opportunities and challenges].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2021Review
- Care partners experience of an oral health intervention for individuals with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia using behavior change technique: A qualitative study.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Article
- Immigrant Status, Resilience, and Perceived Oral Health Among Chinese Americans in Hawaii.Research on agingArticle
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Abstract
We pilot tested a carepartner-assisted intervention to improve oral hygiene in persons with cognitive impairment (participants) and help carepartners become leaders who can adapt approaches that foster participants' ability to develop new skills for oral hygiene care. Following the intervention, we conducted interviews with participants and carepartners to understand their challenges in working together to learn new oral hygiene skills. Participants reported challenges such as frustration using the electric toothbrush correctly, lack of desire to change, uncertainty about correctness of technique, and difficulty sustaining two minutes of toothbrushing. Carepartners reported challenges such as learning a new way of toothbrushing, learning new communication techniques, switching from instructing to working together, learning to balance leading with being too bossy, and being mindful of word choices. Findings suggested that despite challenges, participants were able to learn adaptive strategies to support new oral hygiene behaviors with support of the carepartner as the adaptive leader.
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