ArticleThe Gerontologist2025
Factors Influencing Communication for Older Adults in Residential and Community Aged Care: A Scoping Review.
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- Evaluating the Co-Design and Implementation of a Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Communication in Aged Care: A Nested Process Evaluation Protocol.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- [Communication in later life under institutional conditions : Professional perspectives on communication of ageing people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2026Article
- Attitudes towards addressing alcohol consumption by healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study among older adults in the Netherlands.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2026Article
- Identifying older adults' communication support needs and preferences: a scoping review of measurement instruments.The Gerontologist · 2026Article
- Understanding core competencies of older adult care workers from the perspectives of the employer: automated content analysis of job advertisements.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A Generative Expert-Narrated Simplification Model for Enhancing Health Literacy Among the Older Population.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesOlder adults often experience communication changes due to aging and an increased prevalence of conditions affecting speech, language, cognition, and sensory functions. Although individual health conditions and contextual factors (e.g., personal and environmental) are known to influence communication, limited research has examined how these factors interact. Our scoping review summarizes how health conditions, impairments, and contextual factors can interact to influence communication in residential and community aged care settings. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsPeer-reviewed articles published 2003-2023 were identified through searches of PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus, and ProQuest. Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a framework, we extracted information about health conditions, impairments to body structures and functions, and personal and environmental factors reported to influence communication. Data were synthesized using thematic analysis.
resultsFrom 75 articles, we identified combinations of health conditions (e.g., dementia), impairments to body functions and structures (e.g., hearing impairment), personal (e.g., language, culture, gender), and environmental factors (e.g., relationships, health services, products/technology), reported to affect communication for older adults in aged care environments. Language and culture, and support and relationships, were both key facilitators and barriers to communication. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Older adults may experience complex and diverse communication support needs that result from multiple intersecting factors. Research to date has focused on communication in residential aged care, with few studies exploring community aged care services. Our findings will inform the development of resources for identifying and supporting the communication needs of older adults who receive aged care services.
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