Older Women in Australia: Facing the Challenges of Dual Sensory Loss. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019 With the increase in longevity, the number of women living into old age is rising and higher than that of men. Data was derived from the Melbourne Longitudinal Studies on Healthy Ageing Program, which included 533 women and 467 men aged 65 years and ...
Heine C, Gong CH, Feldman S, Browning C.
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Residential Differences and Depression Among Older Adults With Dual Sensory Loss.
JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck SurgImportance Investigating rural-urban and regional differences in the association between dual sensory loss (concurrent hearing and vision loss) and depression may highlight gaps in sensory loss research and health care services, and by socioeconomic ...
Wang EB +5 more
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Cognitive decline, dual sensory loss and the use of visual aids in elderly - A narrative review
Oman Journal of OphthalmologyThe relationships between visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, stereo acuity, and cognition varied, implying that domain-specific cognitive loss patterns exist.
Sourav Karmakar +3 more
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JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 2022 Importance Hearing loss (HL) and dual sensory loss (DSL) are prevalent, disabling, and associated with numerous age-related health conditions, including dementia and frailty.
Tan BKJ +5 more
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Participation experiences of people with deafblindness or dual sensory loss: A scoping review of global deafblind literature. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BackgroundDeafblindness, also known as dual sensory loss, is a varying combination of visual and hearing impairment in the same individual. Interest in this topic has increased recently due to evidence suggesting an increase in prevalence of this ...
Atul Jaiswal +4 more
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Assessment of Dementia in Individuals with Dual Sensory Loss: Application of a Tactile Test Battery [PDF]
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2018 Background/Aims: Individuals with dual sensory loss (DSL) are more likely to experience cognitive decline with age than individuals without sensory loss.
Peter Bruhn, Jesper Dammeyer
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Validity and Reliability of the Major Depression Inventory for Persons With Dual Sensory Loss. [PDF]
Innov Aging, 2018 Background and Objectives Research has shown that dual sensory loss is a risk factor for depression in older adults. However, validated measures of depression for people with dual sensory loss are lacking.
Hovaldt HB, Nielsen T, Dammeyer J.
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Dual Sensory Loss and Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Hearing, Daily Functioning and Activity Engagement [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 Background: The association between dual sensory loss (DSL) and mental health has been well established. However, most studies have relied on self-report data and lacked measures that would enable researchers to examine causal pathways between DSL and ...
Kim Matthew Kiely +2 more
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Population prevalence of dual sensory loss in community-dwelling US adults 71 years and older: Evidence from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. [PDF]
J Am Geriatr Soc, 2023 Existing estimates for the prevalence of dual sensory loss (vision and hearing) among older adults are either based on self‐reported measures or aggregated for older age groups.
Garcia Morales EE +7 more
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2023 Objective: To evaluate the risk of potentially preventable hospitalizations (PPHs) among adults with sensory loss. We hypothesized a greater PPH risk among people with a sensory loss (hearing, vision, and dual) compared with controls.
Samantha Ratakonda +5 more
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