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Due to changes in birth rates and increased longevity, there are increasing numbers of people with age-associated conditions like dementia. This article is an engaging Q & A with neuropsychologist Dr. Piers Dawes regarding the relationship between hearing loss, dementia, and cognition, with implications for audiology clinical practice.
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This presentation will review current research on the link between hearing loss and cognitive decline/dementia. It will then address auditory training and cognitive therapy that may be implemented to improve communication skills. This course is open captioned.
This webinar series features highlights from a recent issue of the esteemed journal Seminars in Hearing (2015, Issue 3, Volume 36) that focused on the topic of cognition and the aging auditory system, with implications for audiology clinical practice.
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This course is part of a 3-part course series on Aging, Cognition and the Auditory System, presented in partnership with Seminars in Hearing. This webinar focuses on how a patient’s cognitive ability would impact the rehabilitative process. Discussion includes the selection, fitting and use of hearing assistive technology.
This webinar is presented in partnership with Seminars in Hearing. Emphasizing the role of hearing health care within the broader context of healthy aging, we will examine the epidemiologic evidence linking age-releated hearing loss (ARHL) to cognitive declines and other health issues. Then we will consider how social factors influence and are influenced by auditory and cognitive aging and if they provide a possible basis for the association between ARHL and cognitive decline that could be addressed in hearing care.
This course will review pertinent journal articles on the topic of hearing loss and the risk for cognitive impairment, with implications for audiology clinical practice.
As the adult ages, there are predictable changes in social interaction patterns. We also know that adult acquired hearing loss can subtly influence the way a person will choose to use their hearing. In this seminar, we will examine what is known about how the social interaction patterns change over the years, the potential physical and mental health implications of these changes and how hearing loss will complicate these dynamics. Counseling recommendations will be included that reflect an appreciation of the complex interaction of these issues.
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Older adults benefit greatly from cochlear implants. However, widespread misunderstanding exists regarding when older adults should be referred for a cochlear implant and there is a tendency by our healthcare system to overlook hearing as a major health concern. In this presentation, recommendations regarding when to refer older adults for a cochlear implant evaluation will be discussed, the documented benefits and safety of hearing restoration via cochlear implants will be reviewed, results of recent studies involving expansion of candidacy that include older adults will be discussed, and the details of an ongoing study sponsored by CMS to examine expansion of candidacy will be reviewed. This course is presented in partnership with the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, www.acialliance.org.
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This webinar is presented in partnership with American Auditory Society. Noise-induced hearing loss results when exposure to damaging levels of sound injures delicate inner ear structures and compromises vulnerable inner ear functions. Noise-exposed ears age, and they do so in ways different from unexposed ears. This talk will describe functionally important changes that contribute to noise-induced and age-related hearing loss and will summarize recent work that shows that prior noise continues to change the ways that ears and hearing age, long after the noise has stopped.
This course discusses some of the research investigating hearing in noise, and the impact of training on the brain on the ability to understand speech in noise. It explains a new metric of the auditory system, the cABR, as well as some areas of brain research currently under investigation.
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