Hello,
Saw this article and thought I would post it on, the article is about hospital acquired pneumonia, but would apply to carer's of the very frail as well.
Seems the western world has a little bit of a blind spot on dental hygiene in patient care and the article is one nurse's attempt to raise awareness. The numbers are really absurd to think about for something that is not monitored or practised.
Steve
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...stop-rcna37330
“I’ll tell you that today the vast majority of the tens of thousands of nurses in hospitals have no idea that pneumonia comes from germs in the mouth,” Baker said."