The speech therapist in geriatrics: caregiver, technician-researcher, or both?
Orellana, B.
Soins. Gerontologie 112: 35-38
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1268-6034 PMID: 25966525 Document Number: 685757
Geriatric care mostly consists not in curingthe patient, but supportingthem to the end of their life, giving meaning to care procedures and actions through speech, touch or look and maintaining a connection.The helping relationship is omnipresent and the role of the speech therapist is therefore essential in helping to maintain or re-establish elderly patients' abilityto communicate. However, todaythis role is struggling to define itself between that of the technician-researcher and that of caregiver.