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Presbycusis and its management
British Journal of Nursing, 2010Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, is becoming a public health issue. With the large number of ageing baby boomers, primary care providers can expect to see an increase in older adults suffering from chronic health problems such as presbycusis.
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Helping clients with presbycusis
Home Care Provider, 1998Hearing impairment is the most common chronic disability in the United States. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) reports that more than 28 million Americans have impaired hearing. Hearing loss can be temporary or permanent, depending on what function of the auditory system is not working right.
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Critical Bandwidth in Presbycusis
Scandinavian Audiology, 1979Twenty patients with presbycusis and a rather flat audiometric pattern had critical band estimation performed by the method of loudness summation, using noise bands centred around 1 kHz. The pooled data indicated a normal critical band both in patients with a hearing loss less than 50 dB HL and in patients with a hearing loss greater than or equal to ...
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Otology & Neurotology, 1982
The term presbycusis is vague and needs specific signs and symptoms for its definition. Several types of presbycusis, depending on the type of lesion, have been proposed. This article suggests a working definition of "classic presbycusis," which may be defined as a syndrome involving (1) a bilaterally symmetric sensorineural hearing loss, (2) absent or
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The term presbycusis is vague and needs specific signs and symptoms for its definition. Several types of presbycusis, depending on the type of lesion, have been proposed. This article suggests a working definition of "classic presbycusis," which may be defined as a syndrome involving (1) a bilaterally symmetric sensorineural hearing loss, (2) absent or
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Therapeutische Umschau. Revue therapeutique, 1994
Hearing loss in the elderly is the most common type of hearing impairment. The term presbyacusis has been used to describe this category of hearing loss when there are no other etiological factors. However, the term is not precise, because any of several locations along the auditory pathway may be involved to produce the symptoms.
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Hearing loss in the elderly is the most common type of hearing impairment. The term presbyacusis has been used to describe this category of hearing loss when there are no other etiological factors. However, the term is not precise, because any of several locations along the auditory pathway may be involved to produce the symptoms.
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Audiometric profile in presbycusis
Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 1991A group of 40 elderly subjects were evaluated using a variety of audiological tests. Their mean age was 68 years. They had all come to the clinic because of hearing problems. The subjects were selected for this study because no cause of their hearing loss could be found other than presbycusis.
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Presbycusis: An Update on Cochlear Mechanisms and Therapies
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020Jing Wang, Jean-Luc Puel
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