Balancing Eating With Breathing: Community-Dwelling Older Adults’ Experiences of Dysphagia and Texture-Modified Diets

Although many older adults suffer from dysphagia and are required to eat texture-modified diets, little is known about the experiences and challenges faced in doing so at home. In this study, we explored the perspectives of community-dwelling older adults as they struggled to balance dysphagia symptoms and recommended diet modifications with their preferred lifestyles. Using an interpretive descriptive design, we conducted 37 in-home...