Dandakeri Savita, Dandekeri Shilpa, Rai B Gunachandra, Suvarna Nitin, Ragher Mallikarjuna, Prabhu Rachana
Department of Prosthodontics, Yenepoya Dental College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Department of Prosthodontics, A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015 Aug;7(Suppl 2):S438-42. doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.163493.
The present paper aims to review the literature on increasing health care challenges and needs of a growing Indian geriatric population. It also focuses on the need to overcome the shortfalls in its current oral health status in elderly. This review is based on a PubMed database search engine published in the period from 1990 to 2010 in various dental journals. Different strategies are designed to provide better facilities and easy access of these facilities not only to elderly living in the city but to the one's in rural areas. It is emphasized that geriatric dentistry should be included in the educational systems to help resolve problems of oral health care for the elderly in India.
本文旨在综述有关印度老年人口不断增长带来的医疗保健挑战及需求增加的文献。它还着重关注克服印度老年人当前口腔健康状况不足的必要性。本综述基于1990年至2010年期间发表在各种牙科期刊上的PubMed数据库搜索引擎。设计了不同的策略,以提供更好的设施,并使这些设施不仅便于城市中的老年人使用,也便于农村地区的老年人使用。强调应将老年牙科学纳入教育体系,以帮助解决印度老年人的口腔保健问题。