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REVIEW article

Front. Aging
Sec. Healthy Longevity
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fragi.2025.1510257

Age-defying swallowing

Provisionally accepted
María-Itatí Palacio María-Itatí Palacio 1Rosa-María Bermejo Alegría Rosa-María Bermejo Alegría 1Ana-María Lucas-Ochoa Ana-María Lucas-Ochoa 1Ana María González-Cuello Ana María González-Cuello 1Emiliano Fernández-Villalba Emiliano Fernández-Villalba 1Maria-Trinidad Herrero Maria-Trinidad Herrero 2*
  • 1 Neurociencia Clínica y Experimental, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Murcia, Spain
  • 2 School of Medicine, Murcia BioHealth Research Institute, University of Murcia, Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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    Swallowing disorders, which are generally underdiagnosed, affect the elderly, leading to a decreased quality of life and complications, including aspiration pneumonia and death. Understanding the neurophysiology of swallowing and the causes of its dysfunction is a fundamental tool for the prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of dysphagia. New technologies open a wide range of possibilities for the implementation of new care protocols for this disorder.

    Keywords: Presbyphagia, Ageing. Swallowing, prevention, New technologies, dysphagia

    Received: 12 Oct 2024; Accepted: 07 Feb 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Palacio, Bermejo Alegría, Lucas-Ochoa, González-Cuello, Fernández-Villalba and Herrero. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Maria-Trinidad Herrero, School of Medicine, Murcia BioHealth Research Institute, University of Murcia, Murcia, 30100, Murcia, Spain

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