Cynthia Stuen
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195173727
- eISBN:
- 9780199893218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173727.003.0006
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Sensory impairment has a profound impact on older persons, affecting their health, mental health, and quality of life status. Recognition of and attention to age-related sensory loss, particularly ...
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Sensory impairment has a profound impact on older persons, affecting their health, mental health, and quality of life status. Recognition of and attention to age-related sensory loss, particularly vision and hearing, are important in providing social work services to older adults. Knowing the difference between the normal changes in sensory systems and those that are caused by age-related disorders should be basic knowledge for gerontological social workers. It is also important to recognize that for many older adults, sensory losses occur in the context of other comorbid health conditions. This chapter focuses on the continuum of sensory loss of vision and hearing, although some brief attention will be given to the chemosensory areas of taste and smell. The focus is on older adults who acquire an age-related sensory loss in later life, not on the population of older persons who are aging with an early-onset sensory loss. It first discusses normal changes and disease-related sensory impairments and their prevalence. It then presents an overview of the specialized service-systems of vision rehabilitation and aural rehabilitation, and the functional and psychosocial consequences of sensory losses, followed by the implications for social work practice and policy issues. How social work has dealt with people with disabilities concludes the chapter.Less
Sensory impairment has a profound impact on older persons, affecting their health, mental health, and quality of life status. Recognition of and attention to age-related sensory loss, particularly vision and hearing, are important in providing social work services to older adults. Knowing the difference between the normal changes in sensory systems and those that are caused by age-related disorders should be basic knowledge for gerontological social workers. It is also important to recognize that for many older adults, sensory losses occur in the context of other comorbid health conditions. This chapter focuses on the continuum of sensory loss of vision and hearing, although some brief attention will be given to the chemosensory areas of taste and smell. The focus is on older adults who acquire an age-related sensory loss in later life, not on the population of older persons who are aging with an early-onset sensory loss. It first discusses normal changes and disease-related sensory impairments and their prevalence. It then presents an overview of the specialized service-systems of vision rehabilitation and aural rehabilitation, and the functional and psychosocial consequences of sensory losses, followed by the implications for social work practice and policy issues. How social work has dealt with people with disabilities concludes the chapter.
Fiona Macpherson (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780197266441
- eISBN:
- 9780191884207
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266441.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Sensory substitution and augmentation devices are built to try to replace or enhance one sense by using another sense. For example, in tactile–vision, stimulation of the skin driven by input to a ...
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Sensory substitution and augmentation devices are built to try to replace or enhance one sense by using another sense. For example, in tactile–vision, stimulation of the skin driven by input to a camera is used to replace the ordinary sense of vision that uses our eyes. The feelSpace belt aims to give people a magnetic sense of direction using vibrotactile stimulation driven by a digital compass. This volume brings together researchers—neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers—who are developing these technologies, studying the minds and behaviour of subjects who use them. There is a particular focus on the nature of the perceptual experiences, the sensory interactions, and the changes that take place in the mind and brain over time that occur while using and training to use these technologies. Essays address the nature, limits and possibilities of sensory substitution and augmentation, how they might be used to help those with sensory impairments, and what they can tell us about perception and perceptual experience in general.Less
Sensory substitution and augmentation devices are built to try to replace or enhance one sense by using another sense. For example, in tactile–vision, stimulation of the skin driven by input to a camera is used to replace the ordinary sense of vision that uses our eyes. The feelSpace belt aims to give people a magnetic sense of direction using vibrotactile stimulation driven by a digital compass. This volume brings together researchers—neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers—who are developing these technologies, studying the minds and behaviour of subjects who use them. There is a particular focus on the nature of the perceptual experiences, the sensory interactions, and the changes that take place in the mind and brain over time that occur while using and training to use these technologies. Essays address the nature, limits and possibilities of sensory substitution and augmentation, how they might be used to help those with sensory impairments, and what they can tell us about perception and perceptual experience in general.
Joan Stiles, Judy S. Reilly, Susan C. Levine, Doris A. Trauner, and Ruth Nass
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195389944
- eISBN:
- 9780190255718
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195389944.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter discusses studies focusing on children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) of any etiology. Topics covered include motor development after early focal lesions and the emergence of ...
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This chapter discusses studies focusing on children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) of any etiology. Topics covered include motor development after early focal lesions and the emergence of hemiparesis; the range of motor impairments; anatomical correlates of hemiparesis and motor reorganization; reorganization of the motor system; the range of sensory impairments; sensory-motor interaction; and organization and reorganization of the somatosensory system.Less
This chapter discusses studies focusing on children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) of any etiology. Topics covered include motor development after early focal lesions and the emergence of hemiparesis; the range of motor impairments; anatomical correlates of hemiparesis and motor reorganization; reorganization of the motor system; the range of sensory impairments; sensory-motor interaction; and organization and reorganization of the somatosensory system.
Olga Miller, Rory Cobb, and Paul Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847423375
- eISBN:
- 9781447302186
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847423375.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter focuses on issues surrounding the relationship of the assessment and attainment of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities that arise from visual, ...
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This chapter focuses on issues surrounding the relationship of the assessment and attainment of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities that arise from visual, hearing, or multi-sensory impairments. It examines some of the implications of an assessment system in England that pulls in two opposing directions. This system can be found in the framework of government policy that was put in place by the Labour Administration, through the Every Child Matters Agenda (ECM).Less
This chapter focuses on issues surrounding the relationship of the assessment and attainment of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities that arise from visual, hearing, or multi-sensory impairments. It examines some of the implications of an assessment system in England that pulls in two opposing directions. This system can be found in the framework of government policy that was put in place by the Labour Administration, through the Every Child Matters Agenda (ECM).
David M. Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226903132
- eISBN:
- 9780226903163
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226903163.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
This chapter examines the multifaceted health of the elderly and how health along multiple dimensions has changed over time. It shows that health has several dimensions: one which is largely severe ...
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This chapter examines the multifaceted health of the elderly and how health along multiple dimensions has changed over time. It shows that health has several dimensions: one which is largely severe physical and social impairment; a second that is less severe physical limitations; and a third which encompasses sensory impairments. The first and third of these dimensions are improving over time, while the second is not. A commentary is included at the end of the chapter.Less
This chapter examines the multifaceted health of the elderly and how health along multiple dimensions has changed over time. It shows that health has several dimensions: one which is largely severe physical and social impairment; a second that is less severe physical limitations; and a third which encompasses sensory impairments. The first and third of these dimensions are improving over time, while the second is not. A commentary is included at the end of the chapter.
L. S. Illis
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780192617873
- eISBN:
- 9780191724312
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192617873.003.0010
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Disorders of the Nervous System
Central pain is the term used for pain, arising from lesions confined to the central nervous system, which is of an intense unbearable nature and often found in association with particularly ...
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Central pain is the term used for pain, arising from lesions confined to the central nervous system, which is of an intense unbearable nature and often found in association with particularly unpleasant dysaesthesiae. It may be spontaneous or in response to minor stimulation and may be either diffused or localized. Sensory impairment or loss is invariable. When pain occurs in spinal lesions most cases show the classical features of central pain: the pain takes time to develop, there is no tissue damage outside the CNS, there is associated sensory deficit, there is the presence of allodynia and there are lower skin temperatures in the painful area, with the frequent exacerbation of pain by temperature changes or emotional stress, and resistance to narcotic analgesia. Spinal cord painful syndromes may be due to vascular lesions or to trauma. In complete lesions, phantom sensation or phantom pain may be referred to any part of the body below the trans-section.Less
Central pain is the term used for pain, arising from lesions confined to the central nervous system, which is of an intense unbearable nature and often found in association with particularly unpleasant dysaesthesiae. It may be spontaneous or in response to minor stimulation and may be either diffused or localized. Sensory impairment or loss is invariable. When pain occurs in spinal lesions most cases show the classical features of central pain: the pain takes time to develop, there is no tissue damage outside the CNS, there is associated sensory deficit, there is the presence of allodynia and there are lower skin temperatures in the painful area, with the frequent exacerbation of pain by temperature changes or emotional stress, and resistance to narcotic analgesia. Spinal cord painful syndromes may be due to vascular lesions or to trauma. In complete lesions, phantom sensation or phantom pain may be referred to any part of the body below the trans-section.
