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Oral Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Adults

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Acknowledging the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on general and mental health among vulnerable groups is key to providing effective oral healthcare.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
After reading this course, the participant should be able to:

  1. Identify the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation, loneliness and depression.
  2. Discuss the effects of social isolation, loneliness and depression on general and mental health.
  3. Explain oral health considerations for vulnerable groups related to the global pandemic.

This course was issued in April 2021 and expires April 2024. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.


Belmont Business Media is an ADA CERP-recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ada.org/cerp. Belmont Business Media Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Provider ID 317924
3621 Harbor Blvd., Suite 265, Santa Ana, CA 92704

Sandra Stramoski, RDH, MSDH, is an associate professor in the Fones School of Dental Hygiene at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She is also vice president of the Southwestern Dental Hygienists’ Association. Stramoski received the Mabel C. McCarthy Award for service to the profession in Connecticut in 2013. She can be reached at sstramos@bridgeport.edu.


Anna Matthews, RDH, MS, is a professor and chairperson of the Dental Hygiene Program at New York City College of Technology (City Tech). She has taught oral anatomy, pharmacology, principles of dental hygiene care-II seminar, and clinical dental hygiene, and has served as one of the clinic coordinators. Her research interests include emerging issues in dentistry and dental hygiene, microbiology of the oral and systemic diseases, novel pharmacotherapeutics and their effects on general and oral health, as well as interdisciplinary education, educational innovations, and technology in the classroom. She can be reached at amatthews@citytech.cuny.edu. .


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