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Forthcoming 2009
Communication and Swallowing Changes in Healthy Aging Adults
Angela N. Burda, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
250 pages approx. Softcover. 7x10
ISBN10: 1-59756-306-4. ISBN13: 978-1-59756-306-2
US$79.95 CAN$90.00 £51.00 AU$125.00
Price effective September 1, 2008
US$89.95 CAN$101.00 £57.00 AU$140.00
ABOUT THE BOOK
Speech-language pathologists in medical settings frequently working with older adults who have cognitive-linguistic and/or swallowing disorders as a result of strokes, traumatic head injuries, degenerative diseases, general decline, and frailty have no source that documents the abilities in the neurologically intact aging population. Thus, professionals and family members have no idea of what to expect from healthy older adults in terms of communicative and swallowing abilities. Angela Burda’s book is that resource.
Her book comprises eight chapters, the first seven of which summarize the pertinent evidence of a specific topic relating to neurologically intact adults aged 60 and older. Typical age-related changes will be addressed in a narrative format. Other topics in the narrative section will include factors that can affect the specified ability, signs that older adults are having difficulty in the specified topic area and warrant referral to a speech-language pathologist or other medical professional, and strategies that can facilitate favorable performance in the topic area. At the end of the narrative information, a new section entitled “Quick Facts” will be comprised of bullet points that provide a summary list of major points presented in the narrative. This will allow readers to easily find the pertinent information when they may find themselves pressed for time. The final chapter provides a summary of the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, and its applications to aging adults and features a “Quick Facts” bullet point section highlighting pertinent information therein.
This, then, is the only work to focus on the expected communicative and swallowing changes that can occur as a result of the aging process. Specifically, it summarizes and presents the available research on healthy aging adults’ performance and abilities in auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, speaking, writing, voice and motor speech abilities, cognition, and swallowing and will prove an invaluable resource for clinicians in the medical setting
CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Attention
Older adults’ attentional abilities
Factors affecting attention
Strategies to help older adults’ attention
Memory
Older adults’ memory abilities
Factors affecting memory
Strategies to help older adults’ memory
Problem Solving
Older adults’ problem-solving abilities
Factors affecting problem-solving
Strategies to help older adults’ problem-solving
Executive Functions
Older adults’ executive-functioning abilities
Factors affecting executive functions
Strategies to help older adults’ executive functions
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
- Chapter 2: Auditory Comprehension
Introduction
Older adults’ auditory comprehension abilities
Factors affecting older adults’ auditory comprehension
Strategies to help older adults’ auditory comprehension
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
- Chapter 3: Reading Comprehension written by Jill Champley, Ph.D.
Introduction
Older adults’ reading comprehension abilities
Factors affecting older adults’ reading comprehension
Strategies to help older adults’ reading comprehension
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
- Chapter 4: Verbal Expression
Introduction
Older adults’ verbal expression abilities
Factors affecting older adults’ verbal expression
Strategies to help older adults’ verbal expression
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
- Chapter 5: Writing
Introduction
Older adults’ writing abilities
Factors affecting older adults’ writing
Strategies to help older adults’ writing
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
- Chapter 6: Voice and Motor Speech Abilities Written by Todd Bohnenkamp, PhD., and
Carlin Hageman, Ph.D.
Introduction
Older adults’ voice and motor speech abilities
Factors affecting older adults’ voice and motor speech abilities
Strategies to help older adults’ voice and motor speech abilities
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
- Chapter 7: Swallowing written by Jill Champley, Ph.D.
Introduction
Older adults’ swallowing abilities
Factors affecting older adults’ swallowing
Strategies to help older adults’ swallowing
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
- Chapter 8: WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF): Applications for the Community Dwelling Elderly Population written by Travis Threats, Ph.D.
Introduction
Principles of WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and
Health (ICF)
Application of WHO ICF to the Community Dwelling Elderly
Quick-Facts (bullet-point list summarizing key information in above sections)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Angela N. Burda, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Northern Iowa. She has presented regionally, nationally, and internationally on topics related to the aging population. Her research interests include speech perception abilities in aging adults, the understanding of accented speech, and the establishment of communicative benchmarks in the normal aging population.
AUDIENCE
Primary: Speech-Language Pathology
Secondary: Audiology
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