Naming in Older Adults: Complementary Auditory and Visual Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Naming difficulty is a common symptom of multiple age-related neurodegenerative disorders. As naming difficulty increases with age, valid, up-to-date naming assessment tools are crucial for differentiating between neurotypical changes in healthy aging and pathological naming difficulty. We aimed to develop and provide normative data for complementary auditory description naming and visual naming tests for older adults. Furthermore, these measures would include not only untimed accuracy, typically the sole naming performance measure, but also additional scores that incorporate features characteristic of actual word finding difficulty.

Methods

A normative sample of 407 healthy older adults, aged 56-100 years, were administered the Auditory Naming Test (ANT) and Visu

SUBMITTER: Hamberger MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature