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Factors Influencing the Hearing Aids Use and Satisfaction: A Review Study
Journal of Modern Rehabilitation, 2020 Introduction: Hearing loss is a common problem that may end in disability and handicap. The primary treatment of hearing loss is using hearing aids. However, many patients, despite being aware of this problem, are not interested in using these devices ...
Mahsa Hamidi Pouyandeh, Reza Hoseinabadi
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Can Hearing Aids Delay Time to Diagnosis of Dementia, Depression, or Falls in Older Adults?
Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2019 To examine the association between hearing aids (HAs) and time to diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) or dementia, anxiety or depression, and injurious falls among adults, aged 66 years and older, within 3 years of hearing loss (HL) diagnosis.
E. Mahmoudi +6 more
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South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2010 Hearing impairment has far reaching consequences for affected individuals, in terms of quality of life indicators. In a developing South African context the hearing impaired population is faced with limited aural rehabilitation services.
Elaine Pienaar +2 more
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Neural Plasticity Induced by Hearing Aid Use
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 Age-related hearing loss is one of the most prevalent health conditions in older adults. Although hearing aid technology has advanced dramatically, a large percentage of older adults do not use hearing aids.
Hanin Karawani +2 more
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Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017 BACKGROUND The main clinical intervention for mild to moderate hearing loss is the provision of hearing aids. These are routinely offered and fitted to those who seek help for hearing difficulties. By amplifying and improving access to sounds, and speech
M. Ferguson +5 more
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Access to adults’ hearing aids: policies and technologies used in eight countries
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2019 As the proportion of older adults in the world’s total population continues to grow, the adverse health outcomes of age-related hearing loss are becoming increasingly recognized.
Michael Yong +6 more
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Cognition and hearing aids [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2009 The perceptual information transmitted from a damaged cochlea to the brain is more poorly specified than information from an intact cochlea and requires more processing in working memory before language content can be decoded. In addition to making sounds audible, current hearing aids include several technologies that are intended to facilitate ...
Lunner, Thomas +2 more
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Audiology Research, 2012 Wireless synchronization of the digital signal processing (DSP) features between two hearing aids in a bilateral hearing aid fitting is a fairly new technology. This technology is expected to preserve the differences in time and intensity between the two
Iman Ibrahim +3 more
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Visualization and analysis of multi-channel dynamic range compression in hearing aids
Acta AcusticaOne main functionality of hearing aids is restoring audibility. This means that low sound pressure levels are amplified above the elevated hearing threshold, and higher sound pressure levels do not exceed the individual uncomfortable loudness level (UCL).
Jürgensen Lukas +2 more
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Systematic review of barriers and facilitators to hearing aid uptake in older adults
Audiology Research, 2011 A key element to success in the implementation of any screening for a health condition is that an effective treatment is available, accessible, and complied with.
L. Jenstad, J. Moon
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