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7 7  With age, there is also a decrease in sensory skills. Vision and hearing are two of the most common declines. [[WHO>>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-and-visual-impairment]] expects to see an increase in people acquiring vision inpairments as they age. For people over 60 years old, WHO reports that [[over 25% of people>>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/deafness-and-hearing-loss]] are affected by disabling hearing loss.
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9 +Sight loss
10 +https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/research/our-research/research-projects/understanding-impact-visual-impairment-life-dementia#:~:text=This%20means%20that%20many%20people,friendly%20faces%20or%20street%20signs.
11 +https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/sight-hearing-loss
12 +https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK374270/
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14 +Hearing loss
15 +https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/hearing-loss-and-the-dementia-connection#:~:text=If%20you%20have%20hearing%20loss,top%20risk%20factors%20for%20dementia.&text=Hearing%20loss%20can%20make%20the,and%20fill%20in%20the%20gaps.
16 +https://www.scie.org.uk/dementia/living-with-dementia/sensory-loss/hearing-loss.asp
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10 10  Usability - how easy is it to use for everyone?
11 11  Accessibility - can impaired users use the product as well as non-impaired users?
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14 14  We invited a hearing loss person and sighting loss people
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17 -Sources:
18 -Sensory loss:
19 -Hearing:
20 -https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/hearing-loss-and-the-dementia-connection#:~:text=If%20you%20have%20hearing%20loss,top%20risk%20factors%20for%20dementia.&text=Hearing%20loss%20can%20make%20the,and%20fill%20in%20the%20gaps.
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22 -https://www.scie.org.uk/dementia/living-with-dementia/sensory-loss/hearing-loss.asp
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24 -Sight:
25 -https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/research/our-research/research-projects/understanding-impact-visual-impairment-life-dementia#:~:text=This%20means%20that%20many%20people,friendly%20faces%20or%20street%20signs.
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27 -https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/sight-hearing-loss
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29 -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK374270/
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31 31  Motor skills:
32 32  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016749432030162X#:~:text=The%20motor%20symptoms%20of%20dementia,a%20decline%20in%20cognitive%20function
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