Age-Related Deficits in Taste and Smell.

Disturbances in both the ability to smell and to taste are common in older persons. Such disturbances influence nutrition, safety, quality of life, and psychological and physical health. The anatomic and physiologic causes of age-related disturbances are multiple and interacting, and depend on genetic and environmental factors. Frank losses of function, distortions, and hallucinations are common. Most distortions resolve over time, although this can take months or even years. Olfactory dysfunction occurs during the earliest stages of several neurologic disorders, most notably Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, likely heralding the onset of the underlying pathologies.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Otolaryngologic clinics of North America

• Publication date

  2018-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.otc.2018.03.014PMID 30001793
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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