An impaired sense of smell often signals cognitive decline, but 'smell training' could help
- Written by Anna Wolf, Postdoctoral Fellow, Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, University of Melbourne
As people age, their sense of smell can decline.From shutterstock.comAs we age, we often have problems with our ability to smell (called olfactory dysfunction). Older people might not be able to identify an odour or differentiate one odour from another. In some cases they might not be able to detect an odour at all.
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