Assistive technologies for managing language disorders in dementia
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Assistive technologies for managing language disorders in dementia
At present, the number of elderly people is rapidly increasing, which represents a significant threat in terms of their care when they fall ill. One of the most common aging diseases nowadays is dementia, whose symptoms sooner or later include loss of cognitive functioning. Cognitive disorders can vary from serious mental retardation to inability to recall things, to the loss or disorder of spe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1178-2021
DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s95903