期刊名称:Psychologie & NeuroPsychiatrie du vieillissement
印刷版ISSN:1760-1703
电子版ISSN:1950-6988
出版年度:2007
卷号:5
期号:2
页码:121-125
DOI:10.1684/pnv.2007.0039
出版社:John Libbey Eurotext
摘要:Alzheimer’s disease has major social and family consequences. However, therapeutic strategies are still limited. Non-pharmacological therapeutic approaches are known to be useful to protect the intellectual abilities of the patients, or at least, to slow down their decline. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the consequences of sensory impairment in these old patients. Indeed, sensory troubles, mainly concerning hearing, may have an impact on the cognitive and behavioral symptoms. Several studies showed that the management of hearing impairment could afford cognitive and behavioral benefits in demented subjects as well as for the non-demented people. These results are encouraging, and suggest that hearing management should be applied to all hearing impaired patients with Alzheimer’s disease.