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Much of the health care system relies on self-reports when assessing patients. We show that self-reports of swallowing of older adults living in nursing homes are unreliable. As such, we should use objective, formal measures to check for swallowing difficulties in this population.

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This page is a summary of: Perception Versus Performance of Swallow Function in Residents of Long-Term Care, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2019_ajslp-18-0186.
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