Mouth Care & Dysphagia - The mouth is the gateway to the rest of the body
- 20/06/2023
Video description
Good oral health and mouthcare is critical to management of dysphagia patients and a topic of growing discussion.
This webinar covers:
- Oral hygiene is critical for whole body systems health
- Do we know what we think we know about oral hygiene and dysphagia
- Why does it matter?
- Mouth care programmes; what, when, where, how, with whom and why
- Case examples
About our speakers
Sandra Brown (HCPCReg, MRCLST): Is an independent speech and language therapist who specializes in dysphagia management, training, supervision, and consultancy. She holds the RCSLT Sternberg award for clinical innovation in developing a post-graduate dysphagia training programme and is currently a member of the RCSLT pre-registration eating, drinking, and swallowing community and thickened fluids project working group.
Olivia Nicholson: A speech and language therapist working at a large neurorehabilitation unit. She completed her dissertation on the use of mouth care map with stroke patients and has since presented at the RCSLT mouthcare CEN and liaised with health educational England and industry to develop mouth care training and ward rounds
For further training and support materials please click here.
Participants
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Sandra Brown
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Olivia Nicholson
