A bstract Some of the communicative needs of geriatric patients are discussed. Perhaps the best way to demonstrate the importance of communication among the geriatric population is to place ourselves in that eventual situation. How shall we spend our later years? How satisfying will those years be if they are marred by difficulty in communication? By conducting scientific research and by providing remedial speech, language and hearing therapy for the aged, the answers to these questions might prove to be less traumatizing. By beginning now to work with our elderly citizens, speech clinicians can add “life” to the lives of the aged, and just possibly to their own lives.
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Curtis E. Weiss (1971) studied this question.