ArticleBMC oral health2023
Dental care for older adults in home health care services - practices, perceived knowledge and challenges among Norwegian dentists and dental hygienists.
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- Dental health service utilization among older adults receiving home care services in south-eastern Norway.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Exploring dental professionals' experiences of interprofessional collaboration with home care services.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Perspectives of user groups in the co-creation of a targeted dental care service intervention for older adults receiving home healthcare: an explorative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Preventive measures and perceived challenges in delivering oral health care for elderly patients: a survey of dental hygienists in Norway.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2025Article
- Perceptions and experience of rural older people in oral health management in China: a qualitative study.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Reliability and Diagnostic Performance of Digital Versus Clinical Assessment of Oral Hygiene and Gingival Health in Older Community-dwelling Adults.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric DentistryObservational
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Abstract
backgroundProviding dental services to dependent older adults might be challenging because of physical and cognitive decline. The present study aimed to explore current practices, knowledge, and experienced challenges related to the treatment of older adults in home health care services (HHCS) among dentists and dental hygienists in Norway.
methodsAn electronic questionnaire survey was distributed to Norwegian dentists and dental hygienists, inquiring about background characteristics, current practices, self-perceived knowledge, and challenges when providing oral health care for older HHCS patients.
resultsFour hundred and sixty-six dentists and 244 dental hygienists treating older HHCS patients responded to the survey. The majority were female (n=620; 87.3%) and worked in the public dental service (PDS) (n=639; 90%). When older HHCS adults attended the dental practice, the treatments provided were most frequently aimed at relieving acute oral problems, although dental hygienists reported to focus on improving oral health more often than dentists. Dentists reported to have more self-perceived knowledge than dental hygienists regarding patients with complex treatment needs, cognitive or physical impairment. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was carried out on the 16 items related to challenges, three factors were extracted and Structural Equation Models (SEMs) were performed. Challenges related to dental care for older HHCS adults were related to time, practical organization and communication. Variation within these categories was associated with sex, graduation year and country, as well as time used per patient and work sector, but not with professional status.
conclusionsThe results indicate that dental care for older HHCS patients is time-demanding and more often aimed at relieving symptoms than improving oral health. A substantial proportion of dentists and dental hygienists in Norway lack confidence when providing dental care for frail elderly.
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