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Hearing Loss and Cognition Among Older Adults in a Han Chinese Cohort
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Presbycusis (PC) is associated with cognitive decline and incident dementia. Speech reception thresholds (SRT) are used to assess speech detection, which points toward a central component of PC.
Fuxin Ren +14 more
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Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2015 Background: Use of hearing impairment (HI) questionnaires has been an alternative to formal audiometry. Objective: To validate hearing handicap inventory for the elderly (HHIE) questionnaire and verify its suitability or otherwise as a screening ...
Olusola Ayodele Sogebi +1 more
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Presbycusis: do we have a third ear?
Brazilian Journal of OtorhinolaryngologyIntroduction: Age-related hearing changes are the most frequent cause of sensorineural hearing loss in adults. In the literature no studies exist concerning the importance of speechreading in individuals with presbycusis.
Luis Roque Reis, Pedro Escada
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Development of a simple index to predict benefit and satisfaction from amplification [PDF]
, 2009 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of non-audiological patient-based variables; amount of bother, importance of improved hearing, and expectations, as reliable predictors of benefit and satisfaction from amplification.
Niehl, Katie
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Duration discrimination in younger and older adults [PDF]
, 2001 Ten normal hearing young adults and ten older adults were asked to identify the longer of two sequentially presented tones. The duration of the standard tones ranged from 1.5 ms to 1000 ms across blocks.
Bergeson, Tonya R. +2 more
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An Assessment of the Effects of Increased Regulatory Enforcement on Occupational Hearing Loss Workers' Compensation gon 1984-1998 [PDF]
Hearing loss from occupational exposures has been found to be a common and serious problem affecting workers. This paper examines the effect that increasing legislative enforcement of existing regulations has on improving worker safety.
Brian McCall, Irwin B. Horwitz
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La presbiacusia. problematiche, diagnosi e opzioni riabilitative Presbycusis. problems, diagnosis and treatment [PDF]
, 2015 Presbycusis is sensorineural bilateral symmetrical, progressive hearing loss, caused by the advance of age. It involves mainly the higher frequencies and associated with tinnitus.
BARBARA, Maurizio +6 more
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Robot response behaviors to accommodate hearing problems [PDF]
, 2015 One requirement that arises for a social (semi-autonomous telepresence) robot aimed at conversations with the elderly, is to accommodate hearing problems.
Kim, Jaebok +2 more
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The impact of hearing loss on the quality of life of elderly adults
Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2012 Andrea Ciorba, Chiara Bianchini, Stefano Pelucchi, Antonio PastoreENT and Audiology Department, University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara, ItalyAbstract: Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in the elderly, and it is becoming a severe social and
Ciorba A +3 more
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Presbycusis: social impact [PDF]
, 2015 Trabalho final de mestrado integrado em Medicina, apresentado à Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra.Introdução: A presbiacusia é uma condição cada vez mais prevalente nos dias-de-hoje devido ao envelhecimento progressivo da população ...
Correia, Filipa Oliveira Melo
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