Older does not use dental care
Meanwhile, senior citizens in some of the municipalities do not get offered the statutory dental care , other municipalities regret over the lack of support for the scheme.
Instead of spending time on transportation and waiting at the dentist, the elderly and disabled in many cases receive both studies forebyggele injuries and treatment of teeth and dentures sitting at home in their armchair, if they avail themselves of the offer of dental care.
Caring Dentistry
For about 400 per year, citizens who are eligible for the offer, receive preventive and curative dental care in a safe environment at their home. Dental care is offered to all citizens whose self-reliant capacity is so limited that they can effectively equated with nursing home residents, and thereby have a hard time getting to a dentist. And according to dentist Birgit Krabsen from Aalborg Municipality dental care, the scheme for dental care in the home also be helpful to staff in the older centers in the country's municipalities, which could avoid spending time and effort to follow the residents to private dentists to obtain the necessary dentistry.
However, it is not envisaged that a broader group of frail elderly or disabled people who can be treated on ordinary disability friendly dental clinics to be covered by dental care offer. Most of omsorgstandplejens persons already living in senior housing / care homes and also receives a retirement pension.
The originally defined target group of caring dental care was defined as persons living in nursing homes and people who live in their own homes / senior housing or the like with a lot of relief measures, and if self-care is so limited that they can effectively be treated with care home residents.
Only half advantage of the offer
In Aalborg there are apparently many who are not familiar with the system of dental care. Almost 900 people take advantage of the offer of dental care so they can get help to care for their teeth and dentures at home. But in Aalborg Municipality suppose Mon to about twice as many elderly and disabled citizens are eligible to offer dental care at home, and now the municipality will try to get nurses to become better informed about the scheme.
