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Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020 Hearing loss is a modifiable risk factor for dementia in older adults. Whether hearing aid use can delay the onset of cognitive decline is unknown. Participants in this study (aged 62–82 years) were assessed before and 18 months after hearing aid fitting
J. Sarant +6 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is associated with cognitive decline as well as structural and functional brain changes. However, the mechanisms underlying neurocognitive deficits in ARHL are poorly understood and it is unclear whether clinical treatment
H. Glick, Anu Sharma
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Factors Influencing Hearing Aid Adoption
Seminars in Hearing, 2020 In the field of audiology, change is inevitable: changes in technologies with hearing devices, changes in consumer knowledge, and changes in consumer-driven solutions.
Lindsey E. Jorgensen, Michelle Novak
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Assessment of Hearing Aid Benefit Using Patient-Reported Outcomes and Audiologic Measures
Audiology and Neurotology, 2020 Purpose: To determine the contributions to hearing aid benefit of patient-reported outcomes and audiologic measures. Methods: Independent review was conducted on audiologic and patient-reported outcomes of hearing aid benefit collected in the course of a
J. Dornhoffer +3 more
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Telemedicine journal and e-health, 2020 Background: Patients often need multiple fine-tuning appointments with their hearing health care provider to achieve satisfactory hearing aid outcomes. A smartphone app that enables patients to remotely request and receive new hearing aid settings could ...
E. Convery +3 more
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Audibility-Based Hearing Aid Fitting Criteria for Children With Mild Bilateral Hearing Loss.
Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools, 2020 Purpose Because of uncertainty about the level of hearing where hearing aids should be provided to children, the goal of the current study was to develop audibility-based hearing aid candidacy criteria based on the relationship between unaided hearing ...
R. McCreery +5 more
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Directional Hearing Aids [PDF]
Trends in Amplification, 2001 When asking individuals with hearing impairment to identify the situations for which the most communication difficulty is encountered, listening in noise seems to be nearly universally mentioned. In fact, I would venture that if queried, almost no patient would refuse the offer of improved levels for sounds of interest in relation to the level of ...
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Disability and Rehabilitation, 2019 Purpose Research on stigma has been criticized for centering on the perceptions of individuals and their effect on social interactions rather than studying stigma as a dynamic and relational phenomenon as originally defined by Goffman.
J. Ruusuvuori +6 more
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Spatial Hearing and Hearing Aids [PDF]
, 2016 The questions of whether hearing-impaired listeners are also impaired for the localization of sounds and what benefits hearing aids can provide are important for understanding the wider effects of hearing impairment. We review here 29 studies published since 1983 that have measured acuity for changes in the horizontal-plane direction of sound sources ...
Michael A, Akeroyd, William M, Whitmer
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Journal of Aging and Health, 2019 Background: This study recruited older adults to explore physical and psychosocial conditions and other health outcomes associated with hearing loss (HL) and hearing aid use.
T. Wells +6 more
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