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Easy Home Adaptations for Older Adults With Hearing Loss

Here is a guide to three different types of home adaptations that may help you as an independent senior with hearing loss.

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Hearing Better Can Help You Think Better

Describing hearing loss as a risk factor for dementia is “true under the strict epidemiologic definition of ‘risk,’” but the lay public may misunderstand risk as implying “a warning about an impending adverse event.” 

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Supporting Older Patients With Hearing Loss

Identifying age-related hearing loss issues and knowing the warning signs are important for any clinician.

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Nurturing Self-Advocacy by Learning How to Speak Up

As self-advocates, we will speak up for ourselves and our peers, learn who supports us, where and how to access information, know our rights and responsibilities, make our own choices, and advocate for our group’s rights. 

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A Hearing Care Consumer’s Thoughts on OTC Hearing Aids

Logic would seem to say Americans, especially the young and seniors, will opt for OTC devices. On the other hand, logic does not seem to apply when comparing current adoption statistics from other countries where hearing aids are steeply discounted or even free.

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How Pharmacists Can Help Bridge the Gap in Hearing Care for Seniors   

After reviewing the literature on pharmacy, audiology, and their integration, this paper aims to provide pharmacists with education on hearing loss that colleagues in audiology believe is most critical for pharmacists.

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Postural and Head Control Given Different Environmental Contexts

Fall risk in people with hearing loss has been shown in older adults, and our pilot data suggest balance impairments in people with single-sided hearing are more likely to arise in older participants with moderate dizziness.

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The USPSTF Sticks to Its Recommendation: No Hearing Screenings for Older Adults

As in its draft recommendation released a few months earlier (which I wrote about), the USPSTF “concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for hearing in older adults.”

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Staying Vital

My father is an avid concertgoer who turned 61 in February, and I’ve been trying for more than two years—since I joined the team at Hearing Health Foundation (HHF)—to convince him to get his hearing tested.

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Hearing Better Through the Ages

If you’re diagnosed with a hearing loss, remember: Hearing loss is not only very common, it’s also very treatable! A licensed audiologist or hearing healthcare professional can discuss options with you, including hearing aids and assistive listening devices.

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