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COMMUNICATIVE NEEDS OF THE GERIATRIC POPULATION
Author(s) -
Weiss Curtis E.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1971.tb02584.x
Subject(s) - medicine , remedial education , geriatrics , population , gerontology , work (physics) , elderly people , medical education , nursing , psychiatry , psychology , mathematics education , environmental health , mechanical engineering , engineering
A bstract Some of the communicative needs of geriatric patients are discussed. Perhaps the best way to demonstrate the importance of communication among the geriatric population is to place ourselves in that eventual situation. How shall we spend our later years? How satisfying will those years be if they are marred by difficulty in communication? By conducting scientific research and by providing remedial speech, language and hearing therapy for the aged, the answers to these questions might prove to be less traumatizing. By beginning now to work with our elderly citizens, speech clinicians can add “life” to the lives of the aged, and just possibly to their own lives.