Aging and Communication disorder

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. define factors affecting health, well being and communication of aging people; 2. list clinical features of normal, demented and depressed elderly individual and ascertain its impact on communication; 3. apply different clinical inventories such as hearing impairment handicap Inventory to assess the state of communication of the elderly patient; 4. describe the major comorbidities of hearing impairment in elderly patients; 5. describe different types of age-induced hearing loss (presbycusis)- sensory, metabolic, neural and conductive types; and 6. demonstrate how to jointly manage an elderly patient with multiple ailments.

Dementia. Multiple Sclerosis. Hypertension. Diabetes. Clinical Depression. Bereavement & Grief. Cerebro-vascular disorder (Stroke). Presbycusis and types. Dizziness. Vertigo. Tumor and Cancer. Geriatric audiologic inventories. Aphasic tests. Tests of Dementia. Multi-disciplinary treatment of aged population. Depressed and aphasic elderly population. Audiologic audiograms of Aged population.