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KMID : 1020220200200040457
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2020 Volume.20 No. 4 p.457 ~ p.467
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Current status and future tasks of visiting oral health care services for elders
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Lee Sue-Hyang
Bae Soo-Myoung
Shin Bo-Mi
Lee Hyo-Jin
Shin Sun-Jung
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study confirms the current status of visiting oral health-care services for the elderly to draw policy implications for revitalization of the visiting oral health care services in the future.
Methods: First, a survey was conducted on health centers about the current status of the elderly visiting oral health-care service and how to revitalize it. Next, the number of oral hygiene services provided to the elderly was checked in the long-term care insurance system.
Results: Oral health education (100%) was the most common practice in visiting oral health-care service for the elderly, and the most difficult thing in providing services was the lack of dental hygienists (38.9%). The status of oral health-care services in the long-term care insurance system for elderly revealed that the total number of service claims has been confirmed to be zero since the introduction of the system.
Conclusions: Despite the existence of a system that provides elderly visiting oral health-care services, to revitalize it, the law must be amended to secure a dental hygienist as the main agent of the activity and to further take responsibility for autonomous authority and performance.
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KEYWORD
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Aged, Dental hygienists, Home health care, Long-term care, Oral health
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