Swallowing function training tool, swallowing function training kit, and swallowing function training method

摘要

Provide a swallowing function training tool that can be trained without borrowing hands of carers even for elderly people with dementia with decreased tongue pressure. The swallowing function training tool 100 of the present invention comprises a mouthpiece of a beverage container 4 and is made of a soft resin and has a closed tubular shape in which a front end 18 is closed by a convexly curved surface curved forward and at the front end 18 An intraoral insertion section 10 having a delivery hole 11 for delivering a beverage and at least a part of the front end side being accommodated in the fossa of a trainee of a trainee, an intraoral insertion section 10 continuous with the rear end of the intraoral insertion section 10 And a base portion 20 which is provided in a tubular shape with a transverse cross section gradually widening toward the inside of the oral cavity insertion portion 10. The intraoral insertion portion 10 has a transverse cross section of a convex curved line with the direction in which the thickness becomes minimum, ing.