a Laboratório de Delineamento de Estudos e Escrita Científica da Faculdade de Medicina do ABC. Santo André , Sao Paulo , Brazil.
b Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Multimedia and Information-Communication Technology, University of Zilina, Zilina , Slovakia.
Aging Ment Health. 2019 Apr;23(4):417-427. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2018.1426718. Epub 2018 Feb 16.
Describe the use of assistive technology to enhance communication opportunities for older adults.
A systematic review was conducted in two databases, PubMed and Web of Science, by using two different searches in each. The search was limited to original articles, in English language, including people aged 60 years and older that used any type of assistive technology for communication. The articles found in the initial search were filtered by title, abstracts and the remaining articles were fully read.
Eighteen studies were included in this review after the reading of full-texts. Most of the studies included apparently healthy participants with communication limitations due to aging related changes and the others included people with some pathology that prevent them from normal communication.
Four categories of assistive technology were identified: assistive technology for people with speech problems; robot or videoconferencing systems; Information and Communication Technologies and, other types of assistive technology for communication, such as hearing aids and scrapbooks. Assistive technology for communication of older adults is not only used by people with disabilities that prevent them from usual communication. They are mostly for older adults without a pathological communication problem.
描述辅助技术在增强老年人沟通机会方面的应用。
在 PubMed 和 Web of Science 两个数据库中进行了系统评价，每个数据库都进行了两次不同的搜索。搜索仅限于原始文章，语言为英语，包括使用任何类型的辅助技术进行沟通的 60 岁及以上的人。通过标题、摘要过滤了初始搜索中找到的文章，然后阅读了其余的文章。
在阅读全文后，本综述纳入了 18 项研究。大多数研究纳入了因与年龄相关的变化而导致沟通障碍的明显健康参与者，其他研究纳入了因某些疾病而无法正常沟通的人。
确定了四类辅助技术：用于言语障碍者的辅助技术；机器人或视频会议系统；信息和通信技术；以及其他类型的沟通辅助技术，如助听器和剪贴簿。老年人沟通的辅助技术不仅被那些妨碍他们正常沟通的残疾人使用。它们大多用于没有病理沟通问题的老年人。
