Background Behavioural and neuropsychological studies on elderly populations
concentrate on many aspects of cognitive functioning, but significantly less research …

Background: The field of pragmatic impairments of verbal communication in cerebrally
damaged subjects dates back almost three decades. However, a systematic investigation of …

Research investigating pragmatic abilities in healthy aging suggests that both production
and comprehension might be compromised; however, it is not clear how pragmatic abilities …

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Conversational discourse (CD) is among the most complex tasks in everyday life and relies
on multiple cognitive domains (communicative and executive abilities). Alterations in …

This article presents a multimodal video corpus with the principal aim to model and predict
the effects of aging in Mild Cognitive Impairment situation on pragmatic and communicative …

A change in communicative ability, among various changes arising during the aging
process, may cause various difficulties for the elderly. This study aims to develop a Geriatric …

The growth in the elderly population has posed a social, economic and health challenge for
the twenty-first century. Objective: Aging is often characterized by changes in cognitive …

Introduction: Life expectancy has been increasing in recent decades. Therefore, it is
important to understand the functional changes during healthy ageing. Most research has …

Methods We searched articles and books/chapters on geriatric communication (dysfunction)
via the medical/social science search engines, restricted to years 1947 to 2009. Then we …