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Senior oral health: A community-based, interprofessional educational experience for nursing and dental students
The current article highlights an interprofessional, older adult oral health community program, created through an Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice grant from the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, designed to address the gap between older adult health education and care delivery. This project developed an advanced practice, nurse-led partnership among The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing and the Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice Program (both located at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing), New York University College of Dentistry, and Regional Aid for Interim Needs (RAIN), a community service organization for older adults in the Bronx. Teams of nursing (n = 26), nurse practitioner (n = 16), and dental (n = 64) students provided oral health education and oral hygiene instruction using Tooth Wisdom® educational materials to older adults, home health aides (HHAs), and volunteers in nine RAIN senior centers. Students demonstrated increases in their self-reported interprofessional competencies based on the Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey. Results also revealed that older adults (n = 500), HHAs (n = 142), and volunteers (n = 21) at the RAIN senior centers who attended the Tooth Wisdom presentation demonstrated an increase in oral health knowledge
Efeitos do número de animais na matriz de parentesco sobre as estimativas de componentes de variância para produção de leite usando os métodos de Máxima Verossimilhança Restrita e Bayesiano
Medicinal Plants of India
Crude extracts of fruits, herbs, vegetables, cereals and other plant materials rich in
phenolics and antioxidant activity are of prime interest to the food industry because
of their ability to retard oxidative degradation of lipids and hence improve the quality
and nutritional value of functional food. Concomitantly, the importance of antioxidant
constituents of plant materials in the maintenance of health and protection from coronary
heart disease and cancer is also raising interest among scientists, food manufacturers
and consumers as part of the current trend towards the use of herbal medicine. In
addition, the use of complementary alternative medicine (CAM) by patients suffering
from chronic disorders, such as cancers, heart, stroke and immune disorders has been
well documented. CAMs are either used on their own (alternative treatments) or in
addition to conventional medicine (complementary treatments). CAMs can be grouped
into herbal medicines derived from medicinal plants, food supplements that include
vitamin preparations, trace elements and other substances such as omega-3 fatty acid