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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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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 274 - 292
Main Authors: Alantie, Sonja, Tyrkkö, Jukka, Makkonen, Tanja, Renvall, Kati
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jan2022
Subjects:
Old age
Language & languages
Self-evaluation
Educational attainment
Verbal ability
Cognitive testing
Psychology of movement
Neuropsychological tests
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