Knowledge, perceived skills and activities of nursing staff to support oral home care among older domiciliary care clients.
Background: Increasing number of older adults lives in their own homes, but needs help in many daily routines. Domiciliary care nursing staff (DCNS) is often needed to support oral home care. However, information of nursing staff's knowledge, skills and activity in this task is sparse. Objectives: T...
| Published in: | Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 1342 - 1348 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2018
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