Oral Care for Older Patients: Series Introduction. Developing solutions for an emerging population
This course will present the key highlights from the 2013 Seattle Oral Care Pathway meeting for Older People. This conference describes the Seattle Oral Care Pathway for Older People—an approach that links the best possible research with a pragmatic approach for individual care.
Participants will learn:
- Evidence based interventions for edentulous elders
- Various approaches to developing a definition of elderly
- Epidemiology of elderly people and their oral conditions
- Cultural challenges to oral care pathway implementation