Interventions for Nursing Home Residents with Dysphagia—A Scoping Review
Oropharyngeal dysphagia is common in nursing home residents. The objective of this scoping review was to summarize and disseminate the findings from the literature on interventions for dysphagia in nursing home residents. Searches were conducted in four databases. The criteria for including the stud...
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doaj-4568339c6d53472ebd5626d01cd9f9302021-06-01T00:44:11ZengMDPI AGGeriatrics2308-34172021-05-016555510.3390/geriatrics6020055Interventions for Nursing Home Residents with Dysphagia—A Scoping ReviewDorte Melgaard0Albert Westergren1Conni Skrubbeltrang2David Smithard3Department of Clinical Medicine and Centre for Clinical Research, Aalborg University and North Denmark Regional Hospital, 9800 Hjoerring, DenmarkThe Research Platform for Collaboration for Health and the PRO-CARE Group, Faculty of Health Science, Kristianstad University, 291 88 Kristianstad, SwedenMedical Library, Aalborg University Hospital, 9000 Aalborg, DenmarkQueen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, London SE18 4QG, UKOropharyngeal dysphagia is common in nursing home residents. The objective of this scoping review was to summarize and disseminate the findings from the literature on interventions for dysphagia in nursing home residents. Searches were conducted in four databases. The criteria for including the studies were nursing home residents, dysphagia, interventions, original research, published in English, Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish with no restriction placed regarding publication date. Excluded were literature reviews, editorial comments, conference abstracts, protocols, papers not available in full text, and studies with a mixed population, for example, geriatric patients and nursing home residents and where the results were not separated between the groups. A total of 14 papers were included and analyzed. The included papers represented interventions focusing on feeding intervention, oral hygiene, caregiver algorithm, stimulation (taste and smell), teaching the residents what to eat, mobilization of the spine, exercises/training, and positioning. This scoping review identifies sparse knowledge about interventions affecting nursing home residents’ dysphagia. But the results indicate that multi-component interventions, including staff training, training of residents, and/or next of kin, might be successful. This scoping review clarifies that there is a need for well-designed studies that uncover which specific interventions have an effect in relation to nursing home residents with dysphagia and can serve as a guide for designing multi-component person-centered intervention studies. Future studies should implement high evidence study designs, define the measures of dysphagia, and quantify the severity of dysphagia, its underlying diseases, and comorbidities.https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3417/6/2/55care facilitydysphagianursing homenutritionswallowing disorderspneumonia |
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Interventions for Nursing Home Residents with Dysphagia—A Scoping Review |
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Interventions for Nursing Home Residents with Dysphagia—A Scoping Review |
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Interventions for Nursing Home Residents with Dysphagia—A Scoping Review |
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Oropharyngeal dysphagia is common in nursing home residents. The objective of this scoping review was to summarize and disseminate the findings from the literature on interventions for dysphagia in nursing home residents. Searches were conducted in four databases. The criteria for including the studies were nursing home residents, dysphagia, interventions, original research, published in English, Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish with no restriction placed regarding publication date. Excluded were literature reviews, editorial comments, conference abstracts, protocols, papers not available in full text, and studies with a mixed population, for example, geriatric patients and nursing home residents and where the results were not separated between the groups. A total of 14 papers were included and analyzed. The included papers represented interventions focusing on feeding intervention, oral hygiene, caregiver algorithm, stimulation (taste and smell), teaching the residents what to eat, mobilization of the spine, exercises/training, and positioning. This scoping review identifies sparse knowledge about interventions affecting nursing home residents’ dysphagia. But the results indicate that multi-component interventions, including staff training, training of residents, and/or next of kin, might be successful. This scoping review clarifies that there is a need for well-designed studies that uncover which specific interventions have an effect in relation to nursing home residents with dysphagia and can serve as a guide for designing multi-component person-centered intervention studies. Future studies should implement high evidence study designs, define the measures of dysphagia, and quantify the severity of dysphagia, its underlying diseases, and comorbidities. |
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care facility dysphagia nursing home nutrition swallowing disorders pneumonia |
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