| Autor: |
Chia-Hui Chen, Chia-Yu Lin, Chiao-Ling Chen, Kuan-Ting Chen, Cho Lee, Ya-Hsin Yu, Chiao-Yu Shih |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Healthcare; Volume 11; Issue 9; Pages: 1262 |
| ISSN: |
2227-9032 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/healthcare11091262 |
| Popis: |
Swallowing safety is one of the top health concerns of dementia. Coughing and choking (coughing/choking) are signs of impaired swallowing safety. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of regular physical exercise-based swallowing intervention for reducing coughing-choking at the dementia day-care center. This was a retrospective analysis with data from medical records, including age, the clinical dementia rating (CDR), and the frequencies of coughing/choking in ten days (10-day coughing/choking). Those who complied with the exercise programs were assigned to the exercise-based group (n = 22), and those who could not comply were assigned to the non-exercised-based group (n = 7). The non-exercised-based group showed more advanced age and higher CDR than the exercise-based group (p < 0.05). The 10-day coughing/choking showed significant decreases at the 5-month and 19-month in the exercise-based group and at the 5-month in the non-exercise-based group (p < 0.05). Our findings suggested that regular physical exercise-based swallowing intervention effectively alleviated coughing/choking problems of older adults with dementia and its effectiveness was long-lasting. For those who could not comply with exercise programs, noticeably with more advanced age and dementia, the effective swallowing intervention period was short-term. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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