Aging, Communication Processes and Disorders
Author : Daniel S. Beasley
Publisher : Grune & Stratton, Incorporated
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Communication and Swallowing Changes in Healthy Aging Adults
Author : Angela N. Burda
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1449662854
Book Description
Communication and Swallow Changes in Healthy Aging Adults compiles and presents the available research on healthy aging adults’ performance and abilities in the following areas: auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, speaking, writing, voice and motor speech abilities, cognition, and swallowing. This text also presents principles from the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and its applications to aging adults. One of the first texts to cover these principles, this book will address the need for a comprehensive view of communication and swallow issues in aging for students of speech-language pathology. Speech-language pathologist students will learn how to fully compare what would be considered normal for their elderly patients rather than overestimating or underestimating what aging adults are capable of doing. Knowing what would be considered within the spectrum of normal, will help speech-language pathologists to address therapy as effectively as possible. Having this information at hand is particularly important as the nation’s population is aging at a rapid rate and there is a need for evidence-based practice in speech-language pathology. Written in an easy to follow format, Communication and Swallow Changes in Healthy Aging Adults includes original research data, discussion questions and a list of Quick Facts at the end of each chapter to summarize key points. This text will serve as a useful resource as students see elderly clients in on-campus speech and hearing clinics and when they intern at hospitals and long-term care facilities. Instructor Resources: PowerPoint Slides and an Image Bank Testimonial: “Communication and Swallowing Changes in Healthy Aging Adults is a handy text, portable, and logically organized. The information is easy to follow complimented by information presented in tables/charts. This text would be helpful to a practicing therapist when making a differential diagnosis between a normal vs. atypical aging process. Communication and Swallowing Changes in Healthy Aging Adults would be an appropriate text for courses in Communications Disorders Departments for graduate students in a neuro course or a neurogenic communication disorders course, and in lifespan development courses as in the field of Psychology and Gerontology.” ~ Susan Durnford, M.S.,CCC-SLP, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, Ithaca College
Communication Disorders in Aging
Author : Raymond H. Hull
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 1989-05
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
This book concentrates not only on the various communication disorders primarily affecting older adults, but also upon aspects of ageing that have an impact on caring services and strategies. The topics covered are those described by professionals who provide services to the communicatively impaired elderly as those most critical for both practising professionals and students who are preparing to serve the growing population of ageing persons.
Communication and Aging: Creative Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life
Author : Linda S. Carozza
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1597568856
Book Description
Communication and Aging: Creative Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life provides an overview of alternative approaches used to improve the quality of life of individuals with long-term chronic communication diseases associated with aging and neurogenic diseases. This text examines how professionals can inspire and develop programs that allow patients to live successfully with their disorders. -- from back cover.
Communication Disorders in Aging
Author : H. Gustav Mueller
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Communicative disorders in old age
ISBN :
Book Description
Communication disorders in normal aging and dementia
Author : Katrin Appenzeller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3640311531
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: Language and the brain, language: English, abstract: People often do not like to think about the prospects of growing old although everybody will be affected and nobody can evade aging. Because of improved medical care, physical fitness and healthy nutrition the life expectancy of our world population increases. Hence there will be more elderly in the future than ever before. For a long time people wrongly associate aging with disease, and therefore this paper compares health aging with pathological aging, in this case dementia. Even the prevalence of syndromes such as dementia is dramatically increasing worldwide. Patients with dementia are the fastest growing neurobehaviorally disordered population and that is why the subject is very topical and interesting. First of all the issues normal aging and dementia are explained separately. The different characteristics are investigated on several levels which are general facts, communication disorders and causes. Furthermore a comparison of both issues is given in order to emphasis the differences. As a result follows a conclusion.
Aging and Communication
Author : Barbara Bennett Shadden
Publisher : Pro-Ed
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
Nineteen contributions provide a resource for professionals who seek to improve the appropriateness, quality, and breadth of interventions with communicatively impaired older adults. Arrangement is in two sections. The first covers various aspects of aging, and includes focus on the social, physical, and mental problems of aging; and the second establishes care setting and service delivery models for intervention approaches. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Therapeutic Processes for Communication Disorders
Author : Robert J. Fourie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1136886486
Book Description
Why do many people with disorders of communication experience a sense of demoralization? Do these subjective experiences have any bearing on how such problems should be treated? How can professionals dealing with speech, language, hearing and other communication disorders analyse and respond to the subjective and relational needs of clients with such problems? In this book, authors in the fields of communication disorders analyse the psychological, social and linguistic processes and interactions that underpin clinical practice, from both client and clinician perspectives. The chapters demonstrate how it is possible to analyze and understand client-clinician discourse using qualitative research, and describe various challenges to establishing relationships such as cultural, gender and age differences. The authors go on to describe self-care processes, the therapeutic use of the self, and various psychological factors that could be important for developing therapeutic relationships. Also covered are the rarely considered topics of spirituality and transpersonal issues, which may at times be relevant to clinicians working with clients who have debilitating, degenerative and terminal illnesses associated with certain communication disorders. While this book is geared toward the needs of practicing and training speech, language and hearing clinicians, other professional such as teachers of the deaf, psychotherapists, nurses, and occupational therapists will find the ideas relevant, interesting and easily translatable for use in their own clinical practice.
Technology for Adaptive Aging
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2004-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309091160
Book Description
Emerging and currently available technologies offer great promise for helping older adults, even those without serious disabilities, to live healthy, comfortable, and productive lives. What technologies offer the most potential benefit? What challenges must be overcome, what problems must be solved, for this promise to be fulfilled? How can federal agencies like the National Institute on Aging best use their resources to support the translation from laboratory findings to useful, marketable products and services? Technology for Adaptive Aging is the product of a workshop that brought together distinguished experts in aging research and in technology to discuss applications of technology to communication, education and learning, employment, health, living environments, and transportation for older adults. It includes all of the workshop papers and the report of the committee that organized the workshop. The committee report synthesizes and evaluates the points made in the workshop papers and recommends priorities for federal support of translational research in technology for older adults.
Changing Minds
Author : Roger Kreuz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262042592
Book Description
Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives. We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion throughout our lifetime, even as we age. Indeed, compared with other aspects of cognition, language seems to be fairly resilient through the process of aging. In Changing Minds, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts examine how aging affects language—and how language affects aging. Kreuz and Roberts report that what appear to be changes in an older person's language ability are actually produced by declines in such other cognitive processes as memory and perception. Some language abilities, including vocabulary size and writing ability, may even improve with age. And certain language activities—including reading fiction and engaging in conversation—may even help us live fuller and healthier lives. Kreuz and Roberts explain the cognitive processes underlying our language ability, exploring in particular how changes in these processes lead to changes in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They consider, among other things, the inability to produce a word that's on the tip of your tongue—and suggest that the increasing incidence of this with age may be the result of a surfeit of world knowledge. For example, older people can be better storytellers, and (something to remember at a family reunion) their perceived tendency toward off-topic verbosity may actually reflect communicative goals.
