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Digital Exclusion and Depressive Symptoms among Older People: Findings from Five Aging Cohort Studies across 24 Countries.
Health Data Sci
January 2024
Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Digital exclusion is a global issue that disproportionately affects older individuals especially in low- and middle-income nations. However, there is a wide gap in current research regarding the impact of digital exclusion on the mental health of older adults in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries. We analyzed data from 5 longitudinal cohorts: the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultilingualism and developmental language disorder in Southeast Asian speech-language pathology practice: An international survey.
Int J Speech Lang Pathol
January 2025
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Purpose: This study aims to explore the current practices and challenges faced by speech-language pathologists in three Southeast Asian countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam) in assessing and treating multilingual children with developmental language disorder.
Method: A survey was designed and administered to 110 speech-language pathologists across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The survey contained 60 questions on current practices and knowledge of existing resources for assessing and treating multilingual children with developmental language disorder.
The Arabic development of Syrian refugee children ( = 133; mean age = 9;4 at Time 1) was examined over 3 time periods during their first five years in Canada. Children were administered sentence repetition and receptive vocabulary tasks in English and Arabic, and information about age-of-arrival (AOA), schooling in Arabic and language environment factors was obtained via parent report. Older AOA was associated with superior Arabic abilities across time, but regardless of AOA, children showed plateau/attrition patterns in Arabic and shifts to English dominance by Time 3.
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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Bilingualism can stimulate brain plasticity (Jafari et al. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2021;1505(1):8-22) and is also associated with better executive function (Grundy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Building a foundation of trust is the first step to establishing a relationship with the community that transcends any enrollment period. The Memory and Aging Program (MAP) Outreach Team formed in 2016 and has grown to a core of four team members in 2022, all focused on educating the public about Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (ADRD) and sharing opportunities to participate in research. This team explores different approaches to improve the access underrepresented populations (URPs) have to research and share some of their takeaways from community events.
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