1011 CONTINUUM OF GERIATRIC CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH DUAL SENSORY LOSS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN CANADA: LESSONS LEARNED [PDF]
Age Ageing, 2022 Introduction Around 1.1 million older Canadians live with combined hearing and vision impairment (dual sensory loss/DSL). Evidence highlights that they are at a high risk of cognitive impairment, functional decline, social isolation, falls, depression ...
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Semin Hear, 2021 With the aging of the population, vision (VL), hearing (HL), and dual-sensory (DSL, concurrent VL and HL) loss will likely constitute important public health challenges. Walking speed is an indicator of functional status and is associated with mortality.
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'Dual Sensory Loss Protocol' for Communication and Wellbeing of Older Adults With Vision and Hearing Impairment - A Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 Objectives Many older adults with visual impairment also have significant hearing loss. The aim was to investigate the effectiveness of a newly developed Dual Sensory Loss (DSL) protocol on communication and wellbeing of older persons with DSL and their ...
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Dual Sensory Loss and Rate of Dementia Symptom Progression in Cognitively Normal Older Adults [PDF]
Innov AgingLoss of both hearing and vision may serve as a stronger predictor of the rate of dementia symptom progression (i.e., clinical progression) than loss of either sense individually.
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Prevalence of Individuals With Deafblindness and Age-Related Dual-Sensory Loss
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2022 Introduction The authors of this paper have compiled a report on the prevalence of deafblindness and dual-sensory loss based on the review of existing estimates.
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Dual sensory impairment: The association between glaucomatous vision loss and hearing impairment and function. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:Hearing impairment, vision impairment, and dual impairment (both hearing and vision impairment), have been independently associated with functional and cognitive decline.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Health and Rehabilitation Care For Older Adults With Dual Sensory Loss [PDF]
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2022 Atul Jaiswal
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Dual Sensory Impairment: The Correlation between Age Related Macular Degeneration and Sensorineural Hearing Loss [PDF]
Medicina, 2022 The pathogeneses of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and age-related hearing impairment are not yet fully understood. If AMD and age-related hearing impairment are correlated, the cause of both may be a result of a common vulnerability.
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Prescribing for older people with sensory impairment: a qualitative interview study with independent prescribers in primary care [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjectives To explore prescribers’ awareness of medicine-related challenges of older people (≥65 years) with sensory impairment (hearing, visual or dual impaired) and identify the influences on prescribing behaviours for these patient populations.Design ...
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Dual sensory loss: development of a dual sensory loss protocol and design of a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
BMC Geriatr, 2013 Dual sensory loss (DSL) has a negative impact on health and wellbeing and its prevalence is expected to increase due to demographic aging. However, specialized care or rehabilitation programs for DSL are scarce. Until now, low vision rehabilitation does not sufficiently target concurrent impairments in vision and hearing.
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