Yuki Ohara

TL;DR: Accumulated poor oral status strongly predicted the onset of adverse health outcomes, including mortality among the community-dwelling elderly, and prevention of oral frailty at an earlier stage is essential for healthy aging.

TL;DR: To determine the standard values of and age‐related changes in objective oral function of healthy older people, and compare oralfunction of robust, prefrail, and frail older people; and determine the association between oral function and frailty are studied.

TL;DR: Using commonly used cut‐off points to define sarcopenia, including solely muscle mass and combined definitions, on a community‐dwelling elderly Japanese population, the prevalence of sarc Openia ranged from 2.5 to 28.5% in men and 2.3 to 11.7% in women, with muscle mass measured by dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry, and 7.1–98.0% measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis.

TL;DR: The findings showed that the prevalence of xerostomia and hyposalivation were approximately 1 in 3 and 1 in 10 respectively, while hyposalivating was associated with medications and gender, as well as systemic and/or metabolic differences.

TL;DR: Eating alone was a key risk factor for depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older adults and how the association changes along the aging and mental frailty trajectories was examined.