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Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people
The quality of the dietary habits of older adults is important for increasing healthy life expectancy. As with other physical senses, the senses of taste and olfaction change with age. In contrast to physical sensations that can be visibly compared with those of other people, taste and olfaction are...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36215235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275093 |
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author | Inoue, Sana Watanabe, Junji Wada, Yuji |
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description | The quality of the dietary habits of older adults is important for increasing healthy life expectancy. As with other physical senses, the senses of taste and olfaction change with age. In contrast to physical sensations that can be visibly compared with those of other people, taste and olfaction are personal sensations, making it challenging to infer associated changes. This study investigated the characteristics of taste and olfaction in healthy older adults and compared them with those of young adults. In the taste assessment, threshold values were measured using the whole-mouth method with a diagnostic assay kit (Tastedisc). The olfactory assessment measured the overall identification ability using a card-type olfactory identification test kit (Open Essence). Additionally, participants’ subjective health awareness was measured using a visual analog scale. The taste and olfactory assessments results showed that the older group had lower overall sensory sensitivity than the young group, and that there was no correlation between taste and olfactory sensitivity in the older group, while a trend was observed in the young group. Moreover, there was no significant difference between the two groups regarding subjective health awareness, indicating that participants in our research considered themselves healthy regardless of age. This suggests that the subjective health awareness of older people in the health promotion class is somehow independent from their sensory ability. |
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spelling | pubmed-95500352022-10-11 Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people Inoue, Sana Watanabe, Junji Wada, Yuji PLoS One Research Article The quality of the dietary habits of older adults is important for increasing healthy life expectancy. As with other physical senses, the senses of taste and olfaction change with age. In contrast to physical sensations that can be visibly compared with those of other people, taste and olfaction are personal sensations, making it challenging to infer associated changes. This study investigated the characteristics of taste and olfaction in healthy older adults and compared them with those of young adults. In the taste assessment, threshold values were measured using the whole-mouth method with a diagnostic assay kit (Tastedisc). The olfactory assessment measured the overall identification ability using a card-type olfactory identification test kit (Open Essence). Additionally, participants’ subjective health awareness was measured using a visual analog scale. The taste and olfactory assessments results showed that the older group had lower overall sensory sensitivity than the young group, and that there was no correlation between taste and olfactory sensitivity in the older group, while a trend was observed in the young group. Moreover, there was no significant difference between the two groups regarding subjective health awareness, indicating that participants in our research considered themselves healthy regardless of age. This suggests that the subjective health awareness of older people in the health promotion class is somehow independent from their sensory ability. Public Library of Science 2022-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9550035/ /pubmed/36215235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275093 Text en © 2022 Inoue et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Inoue, Sana Watanabe, Junji Wada, Yuji Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people |
title | Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people |
title_full | Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people |
title_fullStr | Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people |
title_full_unstemmed | Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people |
title_short | Subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: A case study of a health promotion class for older people |
title_sort | subjective health awareness and sensory ability of taste and olfaction: a case study of a health promotion class for older people |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36215235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275093 |
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