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Speech therapy with geriatric aphasia patients

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The classical literature on aphasia states that prognosis for speech rehabilitation is less favorable with increased age of the patient and with increased length of time between etiological trauma and initiation of therapy. With research and clinical experience to support this thesis, it might be assumed that a consideration of speech therapy in an institutionalized population of geriatric aphasic patients might be less than productive.* We find little evidence in the literature to prove or to disprove the worth of such a consideration. The literature of gerontology and communicative disorders has few references to speech therapy in the general rehabilitation program of the aged. If anything, the literature tends to suggest (by way of omission) that although post-CVA patients of 65 or older may regain some degree of self-sufficiency in walking and self-care while hospitalized, aphasia is a handicap one should simply accept unless speech returns spontaneously.

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  1. Cushing Hospital, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

    Robert Kastenbaum Ph.D. (Director of Psychological Research, Lecturer in Psychology) (Director of Psychological Research, Lecturer in Psychology)

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    Robert Kastenbaum Ph.D. (Director of Psychological Research, Lecturer in Psychology) (Director of Psychological Research, Lecturer in Psychology)

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Wallace, M. (1964). Speech therapy with geriatric aphasia patients. In: Kastenbaum, R. (eds) New Thoughts on Old Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38534-0_11

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