Speech and language therapy (SLT) is not an area which often attracts a lot of attention in older people’s policy yet it is an area of potentially significant concern. Around 2.5 million people in the UK have a speech or language difficulty and whilst the most likely users of speech therapy services are younger people, the figures below show that the over 75s are also major users of SLT services.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Speech Therapy in an Ageing Society
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“Most people are other people” Oscar Wilde
While Oscar Wilde was clearly not contemplating the finer points of identity construction when he penned these celebrated words, they hint at the highly ambivalent, contingent and multiple nature of identity. People can be many different things and yet for older people, one could argue, there is an increasing emphasis on a singular classification of identity based on their age.