Age-related Hearing Loss and Lexical Disorders (LOOP)

Groupe Hospitalier de la Rochelle Ré Aunis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease; Lexical Syntactic Disorder; Presbycusis

Treatments: Other: Speech therapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03638323

2018/P08/256

Details and patient eligibility

About

In France, Alzheimer's disease accounts for 70 to 80% of the causes of neurocognitive disorders, i.e. 600,000 to 800,000 patients. It is a neurodegenerative pathology that causes evolutionary cognitive dysfunction, mainly affecting memory functions. The inability to name familiar objects (lack of the word) is one of the most commonly noted symptoms at an early stage of the disease.

Presbyacusis, or age-related hearing loss, is the most common sensory deficit in the elderly which is manifested socially by a progressive discomfort of verbal communication. Presbyacusis remains underdiagnosed and undertreated: 2/3 of the patients are not using hearing aid.

In recent years, a link between neurocognitive disorders and hearing loss has been shown by investigating general cognition. In this study, the investigators are investigating lexical disorders.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• > 65 years old
• French mother tongue
• Good vision with or without correction
• Alzheimer's or related disease (15 <Mini-Mental State Examination<25)
• Affiliate or beneficiary of a social security
• Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive disorders related to another pathology (cerebrovascular accident, head trauma, epilepsy ...)
• Protected patient (under guardianship) or person deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision

Trial design

46 participants in 1 patient group

LOOP group

Description:

Speech therapy consultation for patients with Alzheimer's disease

Treatment:

Other: Speech therapy