title: [The speech therapist in geriatrics: caregiver, technician-researcher, or both?].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Blandine
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Orellana
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D024382:Professional Role; D013070:Speech Therapy