This book is a reader-friendly that provides discussion of life-span aspects of communication behavior, disorders and interventions. The authors provide information about the effects of primary, secondary, and tertiary aging as it relates to hearing, speech/voice, swallowing, cognition and language. Additional information contained in this book includes a range of information from normal aging to disorders that occur frequently in the elderly population. When reading this book, the reader is challenged to examine their attitude and interaction with the elderly. 364 pages, softcover.Aging and communication, 2nd Edition by Mary Ann Toner, Barbara B. Shadden and Michael B. Gluth.