title: [Investigation of meals in health care service facility].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Fixed Prosthodontics and Occlusion, Osaka Dental University.
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: Shogo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsushima
authors.forename: Nori
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Takayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawazoe
mesh_terms: 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