| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Eighteen patients (39.1%) out of 46 elderly who require nursing care showed a discrepancy between types of food form and their swallowing function.Appropriate texture-modified foods were recommended.Of these 8 patients (44.4%) has changed the food form. The reasons not to change their food form were mostly rejection by the patients (40.0%), loss of appetite, rejection by the patient’s family and difficulties in preparing appropriate texture-modified foods (20.0% each).In addition, nine out of 46 patients (19.6%) received a diagnosis of pneumonia during the follow-up investigation.VE results suggested that there were no significant relations among food aspiration, saliva aspiration and development of pneumonia.
There may be the other important factors in addition to aspiration of food.
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