Randomised clinical trial: Efficacy of strategies to provide oral hygiene activities to nursing home residents with dementia who resist mouth care.
Rita A JablonskiAnn M KolanowskiAndres AzueroVicki WinsteadCorteza Jones-TownsendMaria L GeisingerPublished in: Gerodontology (2018)
The data suggest that this intervention facilitates mouth care among persons with dementia. The management of refusal behaviour may be a clinically more realistic approach than reducing or eradicating refusals.
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