Evaluation of preventive care for swallowing difficulty through policy changes in Japanese long-term care insurance: analysis of a nationwide claims dataset for long-term care insurance

• Auteurs principaux: Hiroko Mori (Auteur), Ayako Nakane (Auteur), Haruka Tohara (Auteur), Takeo Nakayama (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: BMC, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Swallowing/feeding difficulty is a serious hidden health problem in the older population. Although oral intake services based on the degree of this difficulty have been provided and revised in Japanese public long-term care (LTC) insurance since 2006, their implementation has not...