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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2893
igaa057.2893
Abstracts
Session 7220 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Addressing Sensory Impairment in the ICU: Critically Important for Improving Outcomes
Ferrante Lauren  
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”798 798
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Millions of older adults are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) every year. Many of these patients have preexisting impairment in hearing or vision, but sensory impairment is rarely addressed in the ICU. This talk will present recent work evaluating the association of sensory impairment with functional outcomes among older ICU patients, and discuss barriers to and potential strategies for addressing sensory impairment in the ICU.