This presentation examines why older adults struggle to follow speech amid competing conversations, pointing to cognitive factors that matter even when hearing loss alone does not explain the difficulty. I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects...
Highlighting recent epidemiologic research on hearing loss, accelerated cognitive decline, and incident dementia, as well as future trends in addressing hearing loss as a public health problem
Highlighting recent epidemiologic research on hearing loss, accelerated cognitive decline, and incident dementia, as well as future trends in addressing hearing loss as a public health problem The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. So, I...
A review of recent advances in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation handout and references. Thank you so much. It’s great to be here. It’s great...
Describing the diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants with particular focus on the speech and language features that differentiate them
Describing the diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants with particular focus on the speech and language features that differentiate them The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. I’ll be talking today about connected speech...
I think one continuing question, and one that we’ve had for a long time is, “Why do older people have difficulty understanding speech?” What exactly changes with age? Is it hearing loss? Is it attenuation from peripheral hearing loss? Is it something else going on in the cochlea? Is it...
I think the changing demographics is going to change all landscapes. There are going to be so many people who are living longer, and living with all these different chronic conditions. It’s going to be much more expensive to be able to support the older people as they live longer....
