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Quality of Life (QoL) 3
The impact of hearing loss on the quality of life in elderly adults.
Ciorba et al. 2012
In the near future, it
will be necessary to improve our knowledge of this condition and its physiopathology, in an attempt to remediate
its progression. In addition, it will be of
great importance to improve methods of identifying individuals with presbycusis and deteriorating QoL, thus improving services
for providing hearing aids, assistive listening devices, and auditory rehabilitation. Identifying individuals with
hearing loss, supplying appropriate hearing aids or other listening devices, and teaching coping strategies may have a positive impact on the quality of life of older people.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ articles/PMC3393360/
Cognitive Decline 4
Association between hearing loss and cognitive decline
Lin et al 2013
“Individuals, even adjusted for level of hearing loss over time, are performing more poorly on [cognitive tests] that doesn’t require that you actually hear.”
-Marilyn Albert
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/ NBK233884
Brain Reorganization 5
Cross-modal re- organization in adults with early stage hearing loss. Campbell J, Sharma A.
“Our findings provide the first evidence that visual cross-modal re-organization not
only begins in the
early stages of hearing impairment, but may also be an important factor in determining behavioral outcomes for listeners with hearing loss, a finding which demands further investigation.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/24587400/
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