Marilyn Gugliucci, PhD, director of Geriatrics Education and Research at the University of New England, and Jennifer Crittenden, MSW, assistant director of Center on Aging at the University of Maine, discuss the importance of working with Maine's older adults in long-term care facilities to improve their oral health through Lunder-Dineen's MOTIVATE pilot. The project offers a new way to look at oral health care and stresses how oral health leads to systemic health.
