Increasing numbers of older people and the decreasing rates of edentulism highlight the importance of dental education that focuses on oral health and aging. This evaluation study assessed dental students' knowledge and beliefs about older people as well as their awareness of the biopsychosocial concerns that are potential barriers to oral health care. Dental students' (N=202) knowledge and per...

The age at which an animal is classified as geriatric can be based on chronological, physiologic or functional age. Physiological age differs between horses and depends on their use, genetic and environmental factors. Geriatric horses and ponies make up an increasing percentage of the equine population and there is some evidence the more aged horses are being presented for veterinary treatment....

Different service models have emerged in Canada and the United States to address the issue of senior citizens' lack of access to comprehensive dental care. Over the past decade, one such model, the use of mobile dental service units, has emerged as a practical strategy. This article describes a mobile unit, operated as an adjunct to the general practitioner's office and relying mainly on existi...

The aging of the US population poses one of the greatest future challenges for family practice residency graduates. At a time when our discipline should be strengthening geriatric education to address the needs of our aging population, the Group on Geriatric Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine believes that recent guidelines from important family medicine organizations sugge...

Ro le o f s t a t e coa l i t i on s The mission of the Coalition for Oral Health for the Aging (COHA; www.micoha.org) is to improve the oral health of older people through advocacy, professional education, public education, and research by focusing on prevention, health promotion, and evidence-based practices. This mission is achieved through COHA’s organizational goals: (1) to be a resource f...

There is an escalating demand for geriatric oral healthcare in all developed and developing countries including India. Two-thirds of the world’s elderly live in developing countries. This is a huge population that must receive attention from policy-makers who will be challenged by the changing demands for social and health services including oral health services. Resources are limited thus rath...

BALJIT S. MOONGA,1 SUN LI,1* JAMEEL IQBAL,1* ROBERT DAVIDSON,2 VIJAI S. SHANKAR,3 PETER J. R. BEVIS,1 ANGELA INZERILLO,1 ETSUKO ABE,1 CHRISTOPHER L.-H. HUANG,3 AND MONE ZAIDI1 1Mount Sinai Bone Program, Departments of Medicine and Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York 10029; 2Divisi...