Dysphagia: What Are We Really Risking? A whole-person approach to risk, choice and rehabilitation following brain injury
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Speaker:
- Karen Scrivener-Fearn & Gillian Buckingham – Director & Speech and Language Therapists
Learning Objectives:
ā¢ Explain dysphagia and recognise how swallowing difficulties following brain injury can affect a personās physical health, psychological wellbeing, relationships, social participation and quality of life.
ā¢ Identify the wider factors that can influence swallowing, including cognition, communication, respiratory health, fatigue, mobility, reflux and an individualās broader medical history.
ā¢ Critically consider the language and practice surrounding eating and drinking with acknowledged risks, including individual choice, shared decision-making and ongoing professional responsibility.
ā¢ Explore the multifactorial nature of complications such as aspiration pneumonia and consider how potentially modifiable risk factors can be identified and addressed.
ā¢ Compare compensatory approaches, including diet and fluid modification, with rehabilitative interventions that address swallowing strength, skill and the wider sensory-motor pathway.
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