Is Old Age Just a Number in Language Skills? Language Performance and Its Relation to Age, Education, Gender, Cognitive Screening, and Dentition in Very Old Finnish Speakers.

Purpose: This study reports on how very old (VO) Finnish people without dementia perform in the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) and two verbal fluency tasks and which demographic factors predict the performance. Method: The study included fifty 80- to 100-year-old community-dwelling Finnish speakers w...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 274 - 292
Autores principales:	Alantie, Sonja, Tyrkkö, Jukka, Makkonen, Tanja, Renvall, Kati
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jan2022
Materias:	Old age Language & languages Self-evaluation Educational attainment Verbal ability Cognitive testing Psychology of movement Neuropsychological tests
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