[Investigation of meals in health care service facility].
OBJECTIVE
Oral care and oral treatment are promoted in health care service facilities. However, disorders of eating, mastication and swallowing and care management of meal were get behind. This study investigated them in health care service facilities.


METHODS
Doctors who work in facilities were screened for care management of meal using questionnaire. Inpatients were screened for age, meal menu, vertical stop, prosthetic treatment, satisfaction of mastication and difference of meal menu in the home and in the facility.


RESULTS
Doctors and care workers have little understanding of mastication. Inpatients were satisfied to be able to eat rice in the home and in the facility. It is of paramount importance to have remaining teeth, to maintain vertical stop and to have prosthetic treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
Education on the importance of mastication is needed. The research results show that new action and diagnosis method for deciding menus aiming at mastication of steamed rice need to be developed.
Imai
Atsuko
A
Department of Fixed Prosthodontics and Occlusion, Osaka Dental University.
Yasuda
Shogo
S
Matsushima
Yasuhiko
Y
Nakanishi
Nori
N
Tanaka
Masahiro
M
Kawazoe
Takayoshi
T
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008409:Mastication / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires