Oral health toolkit for adults in care homes
Published 27 November 2020
Applies to England
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Background
Maintaining good oral health throughout life and into older age improves general health and wellbeing, and plays an important part in helping people stay independent.
The Care Quality Commission report showed that too many people living in care homes were not being supported to maintain and improve their oral health. The report contained recommendations to improve the oral health of care home residents, including the implementation of the NICE guideline .
The highlights that individuals need to be supported to have good oral health, stay well hydrated and well-nourished. The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) contained a commitment as part of the Ageing Well Programme to roll out across England. The implementation framework includes oral health care and what best practice looks like.
For local advice on how to improve oral health in care homes contact your consultant in dental public health in your PHE centre.
Oral health toolkit for adults in care homes
The oral health toolkit includes . It鈥檚 a live document, with further resources added as they become available. The toolkit consists of the 5 sections below.
Care home residents and their loved ones, families, friends and carers
This section provides links to and their families, friends and carers.
Care home staff training resources
This section led by Health Education England includes training slides, a manual with further information, recorded webinars and a catalogue of online videos to support .
Documents for care home managers
The include care home policy templates, a quality assurance checklist and a baseline assessment to help care home managers put NICE guidance into practice.
Care home-related publications
This section contains links to .
Care home commissioners
This section contains documents and links related to .