In my last semester’s public health class, my group and I decided to do community service. We believed it would be a great opportunity to demonstrate oral hygiene care to elderly people, so we chose the nursing home. In 2019, about 16.5 percent of the American population was 65 years old and it might grow to 22 percent by 2050. Oral condition changes due to aging and a couple of systemic diseases. The purpose of this project was to educate elderly people on how to improve their oral health.
Unfortunately, we were not able to go to the nursing home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead of that, we made the presentation in the class. I presented the introduction and assessment with three research articles that I found to support our topic about systemic disease related to oral health.