Abstract

● If you feel that it is difficult to swallow, please read it.

● Train your throat with "5 seconds throat training" to improve your "swallowing power"!

● Save your life by suppressing coughing, tanning, and aspiration!

"Aspiration pneumonia" kills as many as 40,000 people a year. Please, don't be overconfident that you're okay, and if you think, "I feel a little difficult to swallow these days ...", start "throat training" right away!

Swallowing training with a simple exercise that anyone can start for 5 seconds each time!

【table of contents】
Introduction
First of all, "Relationship between eating and swallowing and breathing"
Chapter 1 Experiences of Prevention and Improvement of Aspiration Pneumonia
Chapter 2 What are the causes and symptoms of aspiration pneumonia?
Chapter 3 Preventing Aspiration! Swallowing Function Enhancement Exercise
Chapter 4 Points of daily life to prevent aspiration pneumonia

Author’s Information

Supervised by Keisuke Maeda
National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Chief of Geriatric Medicine
Visiting Professor, Aichi Medical University Graduate School of Palliative and Supporting Medical Sciences

Graduated from Kumamoto University School of Medicine in 1998. Since 2005, he has been treated at remote hospitals, acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, convalescent rehabilitation hospitals, etc. 2011 Tamana Regional Medical Center Department of Food, Swallowing and Nutrition Therapy. He has been the secretary general of the occasional home network since 2013, and in the same year he established the NPO "Meal Care Supporters". 2017 Lecturer at Aichi Medical University, 2019 Associate Professor. In 2020, he became the chief physician of geriatric medicine at the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology. He is active on the themes of collaboration between medical care and long-term care, and dentistry and medical care, such as holding study sessions for long-term care workers and long-term care facilities. He takes a multifaceted approach to the prevention and treatment of aspiration pneumonia. He is a councilor of the Japan Society for Eating and Swallowing Rehabilitation.
Areas of expertise: dysphagia, geriatric nutrition, sarcopenia, flail, undernutrition