Interventions to prevent pneumonia among older adults
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This article examines interventions used to prevent the development of pneumonia in geriatric patients. Interventions including the use of drugs to facilitate swallowing and coughing reflexes, improved oral hygiene, the prevention of cerebrovascular disorders, and infection-control measures help to prevent the development of pneumonia due to aspiration in geriatric patients.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2001
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Capsaicin troche for swallowing dysfunction in older people
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A study examining whether oral capsaicin troche supplementation with every meal upregulates the impairment of upper respiratory protective reflexes such as swallowing reflexes and the cough reflex among elderly is presented.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2005
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A randomized trial of olfactory stimulation using black pepper oil in older people with swallowing dysfunction
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A study on olfactory stimulation using black pepper oil on elderly people's dysphagia with relation to prevention of pneumonia is presented
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
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