The Effectiveness of Lay Health Advisors Strategy Intervention on Aborigines Elderly Oral Care Education

The participants in the EG received 4 lessons from a LHA over 4 weeks. Four lessons were taught one-on-one once a week by a certified LHA at the participants' homes. The lessons including understand oral structure, learn oral self-care skills and oral function promotion, understand the status of oral self-care and the relationship between oral diseases and systemic diseases, understand swallowing dysfunction and safe eating skills and review.

Oral exercise intervention is designed to increase the range of movement in tongue, lips, and jaw as well as salivary gland massages, which will help speech and/or swallow functioning. All participants performed oral exercise before three meals a day.