Download or read book Technology for Adaptive Aging written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-04-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Language and Communication in Old Age written by Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores physiological and psychological changes in speech among the elderly, drawing on 20 years of research on the physical and emotional aspects of language and communication. Index.
Download or read book Language and Communication in the Elderly written by Loraine K. Obler and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language of the Elderly written by Jane Maxim and published by Whurr Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing extensively on the author's investigations in the fields of normal language use in the elderly population and deteriorating language in the dementias, this book seeks to integrate current research in these areas.
Download or read book Language and Communication in Old Age written by Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores physiological and psychological changes in speech among the elderly, drawing on 20 years of research on the physical and emotional aspects of language and communication. Index.
Download or read book Communication and Swallowing Changes in Healthy Aging Adults written by Angela N. Burda and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Changing Minds written by Roger Kreuz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How to Say It to Seniors written by David Solie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to bridging the generation gap. In How to Say It to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later stages of life, Solie helps in understanding the unique perspective of seniors, and provides the tools to relate to them.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Emotion Social Cognition and Problem Solving in Adulthood written by Paul Verhaeghen and published by Oxford Library of Psychology. This book was released on 2014 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Library Of Psychology --
Download or read book Communication and Assertion Skills for Older Persons written by Leilani Doty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Communication in Elderly Care written by Peter Backhaus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of communication in elderly care is becoming ever more pressing, with an aging world population and burgeoning numbers of people needing care. This book looks at this critical but underanalyzed area. It examines the way people talk to each other in eldercare settings from an interdisciplinary and globally cross-cultural perspective. The small body of available research points to eldercare communication taking place with its own specific conditions and contexts. Often, there is the presence of various mental/physical ailments on the part of the care receivers, scarcity of time, resources and/or flexibility on the part of the care givers, and a mutual necessity of providing/receiving assistance with intimate personal activities. The book combines theory and practice, with linguistically informed analysis of real-life interaction in eldercare settings across the world. Each chapter closes with a "Practical Recommendations" section that contains suggestions on how communication in eldercare can be improved. This book is an important and timely publication that will appeal to researchers and carers alike.
Download or read book Aging and Communication written by Barbara Bennett Shadden and published by Pro-Ed. This book was released on 1997 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Communication Skills for Working with Elders written by Barbara Dreher, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ìDr. Dreherís book is a concise and highly readable guide to developing and enhancing oneís communication skills for the betterment of the elderly personís quality of life... [It] clearly has a place on the bookshelf of every layman and professional alike who interacts with elderly people.î - Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, about the first edition ì...extremely useful as a teaching tool.î - Geriatric Nursing, about the first edition This popular text provides practical guidelines for effective interaction with the elderly and presents techniques for overcoming common communication problems and disorders common among elders. New to this second edition are chapters addressing assisted living, the use of computers for communication, the ìBoomers,î and new approaches for dealing with emotional strains of anxiety and depression, among others. Each chapter concludes with exercises and activities designed to help readers practice and hone their skills. This book is ideal for courses in departments of gerontology, social work, nursing, and communication.
Download or read book Language Communication and the Elderly written by Howard Giles and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aging Communication Processes and Disorders written by Daniel S. Beasley and published by Grune & Stratton, Incorporated. This book was released on 1981 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Communication and Aging written by Jake Harwood and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines key topics such as interpersonal and family relationships in old age, media portrayals of aging, cultural variations in intergenerational communication, and health communication in old age.
Download or read book Language of the Elderly written by Jane Maxim and published by Singular. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the British reader in mind, but equally instructive for Americans, covers aging and communication; language and language change in the normal elderly population; the grammatical structure of conversational language, complex structures, errors and repair, and language profiles in the normal elderly; language pathology in Alzheimer's and non-Alzheimer dementias; current service provisions for the elderly in the UK; speech and language therapy interventions; and future directions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
