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"Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves understood and to understand others to remain cognitively and socially engaged with families, friends, and other individuals. When they are unable to communicate, people with hearing impairments can become socially isolated, and social isolation can be an important driver of morbidity and mortality in older adults. Despite the critical importance of communication, many older adults have hearing loss that interferes with their social interactions and enjoyment of life. People may turn up the volume on their televisions or stereos, miss words in a conversation, go to fewer public places where it is difficult to hear, or worry about missing an alarm or notification. In other cases, hearing loss is much more severe, and people may retreat into a hard-to-reach shell. Yet fewer than one in seven older Americans with hearing loss use hearing aids, despite rapidly advancing technologies and innovative approaches to hearing health care. In addition, there may not be an adequate number of professionals trained to address the growing need for hearing health care for older adults. Further, Medicare does not cover routine hearing exams, hearing aids, or exams for fitting hearing aids, which can be prohibitively expensive for many older adults. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging is the summary of a workshop convened by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence in January 2014 on age-related hearing loss. Researchers, advocates, policy makers, entrepreneurs, regulators, and others discussed this pressing social and public health issue. This report examines the ways in which age-related hearing loss affects healthy aging, and how the spectrum of public and private stakeholders can work together to address hearing loss in older adults as a public health issue."--

Deafness --- Aging --- United States.

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L'attention aux mouvements corporels est l'axe principal de ce livre qui développe les bienfaits du Taï chi chuan sur la santé mentale et physique des personnes âgées. En effet, par son approche globale, corporelle et mentale du geste, cette discipline, pratiquée massivement par la population chinoise dans les parcs et les jardins, contribue à la prévention des pathologies du vieillissement. En France, la dimension corporelle du vieillissement est largement sous-estimée. Pourtant la prévention de la dépendance des personnes âgées peut être améliorée si on s'attache à détecter les fragilités dues à l'avancée en âge et à favoriser la dynamique de transformation plutôt que l'endormissement dans des habitudes ou des routines. Le Taï chi chuan permet d'anticiper la globalité du geste dans ses composantes corporelles et mentales. En aidant à percevoir le corps en profondeur pour viser la réalisation du mouvement, il concourt à l'interdépendance intellectuelle, émotionnelle, sensitive et motrice qui contribue à la santé mentale et physique. À destination des professionnels du soin, des animateurs, des professeurs de gymnastique « douce » ou de gymnastique volontaire, les auteurs proposent des situations pratiques et des exercices adaptés aux personnes âgées.

Tai chi. --- Aging --- Prevention.

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Examines the issue of aging from a variety of international perspectives.

Older people --- Aging