… This volume of edited papers covers a wide range of topics dealing with the relationship
between old age and language. It offers the reader a diversity of perspectives while at the …

… older adults' language and communication skills (see, inter alia, Burke & Shafto, 2004;
Caplan & Waters, 2006; Kemper, 2015; Kemper & Lyons, 1994; Korpijaakko-Huuhka & Klippi, …

… of institutionalization, and health status, but are age specific. Attempts to change the scripts
… part of older participants. Implications of these findings for communication research with older …

… in the psychiatry of old age. The contribution of the speech and language therapist is the
focus of … Language change and language assessment in psychiatric disorders associated with …

… Social relations may influence language indirectly through their effect on cognition, and may
have a direct influence through the maintenance of communication skills. Exemplifying the ‘…

… a communication accommodation framework, this article reviews the emerging literature on
patronizing communication directed to older … (modifications of communication based on age-…

… In order to measure language-relevant expectations that individuals bring to … intragenerational
communication, we selected two age groups, young adults (18-40 years) and older adults (…

… Specifically, in this chapter we review, synthesize, and critically analyze three areas of
communication and aging research: cognition, language, and relationships. The first major …

… most often ascribed to old age in the great writers. Even Cicero, the great Roman champion
of old age, ascribes one trait, loquacity, specifically to old age: ‘Old age is naturally garrulous…

… of the language samples of older normal … Communication Efficiency. Relatively stable
performance, however, was found across the wide age range for most of the speech and language …