Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g. MS, Parkinson's disease)

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

International

Symposium

(602457) Hearing and vision support in dementia: An international perspective

Presenter(s)

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  Iracema Leroi, BSc, MD, FRCPC, MRCPsych, DABPN

  Associate Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry
  Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin
  Dublin
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  Tammy Hopper, BA, MS, PhD, CCC-SLP

  Professor
  University of Alberta
  Edmonton, Alberta
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  H. Isabel Hubbard, PhD, CCC-SLP

  Assistant Professor
  University of Kentucky
  Lexington, Kentucky
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  Carrie Nieman, MD,MPH

  Assistant Professor
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, Maryland
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  Fofi Constantinidou, PhD, CCC-S, CBIS

  Professor of Language Disorders and Clinical Neuropsychology
  University of Cyprus
  Nicosia, Nicosia

Hearing and vision impairments are among the most common and disabling comorbidities in dementia and may worsen the trajectory of decline. Improving sensory function may be an accessible and cost-effective means of improving quality of life and other outcomes for people with dementia (PwD). This symposium provides new evidence to guide the clinician in managing these comorbidities, including specific clinical guidelines. It also highlights the unmet needs of minority and low socioeconomic communities with concurrent hearing and cognitive challenges.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will be able to describe the prevalence of hearing loss and hearing aid use among people with dementia, especially among lower income and minority communities.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to explain several treatments for cognitive-communication disorders of dementia, including how to use these treatments, write goals and measure progress.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to describe how home-based support of hearing and vision impairment may improve outcomes for people with dementia and their care partners.
• Upon completion, participants will be introduced a set of clinical guidelines for ageing-related concurrent hearing, vision and cognitive impairment, based on the American Association of Neurology’s approach to guideline development.