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New Insights into First-time Users

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1.  Age-related stigma is:
  1. Only relevant for people in their 80's and beyond
  2. Related to the symbolism that hearing aids indicate that the user is an old person
  3. A marker that the person will accept all treatments that minimize the effects of age-related body change
  4. Has disappeared with the advent of "designer" hearing aids
2.  Concerns about costs, effort and overall "hassle" are:
  1. True concerns for some patients
  2. Maskers for deeper, stigma-related concerns for some patient
  3. Often minimized with the use of hearing device demonstrations
  4. All of the above
3.  Normalization refers to:
  1. A patients desire to be "normal again"
  2. The audiometric definition of "normal hearing" changing over time
  3. The belief that if a body change is a normal age-related, that nothing has to be done in response
  4. The patients desire to react to a health car challenge the same way everyone else does
4.  Normalization will:
  1. Increase the chances that amplification is accepted
  2. Decrease the chances that amplification is seen as necessary
  3. Speed up the rate of change in hearing over the years
  4. Only occur in relation to hearing
5.  Older patients tend to:
  1. Have great confidence in their decision making skills
  2. Have an increasing sense of self-worth
  3. Have a diminished sense of self-confidence
  4. See hearing aids as a way to improve social standing
6.  The use of demonstration fittings:
  1. Has no role for the first time user
  2. Should only be used as a last resort
  3. Will create a sense of distrust in nearly all patients
  4. May speed up the acceptance of amplification
7.  Having the patient discuss the potential benefits of making a change:
  1. Can help lead to that change
  2. Can change the focus off of the symbolism of hearing aids
  3. Is part of the implementation of The Box tool
  4. All of the above
8.  A patient who is willing to be fit with amplification:
  1. May not be totally ready for that fitting
  2. Is never hiding other concerns
  3. Has no need for further discussion
  4. Always has perfectly appropriate expectations
9.  A patient who shows concerns over cost and potential side effects:
  1. May actually be having trouble dealing with self-perceived stigma of hearing aids
  2. Has concerns that should be treated as legitimate
  3. May have their mind set at ease via the use of a demo
  4. All of the above
10.  The patient who is showing normalizing behavior:
  1. May benefit from a discussion of the costs of not treating the hearing loss
  2. May benefit from the acknowledgment that you "can't fix everything"
  3. Has a great urgency to restore normal function
  4. All of the above