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20Q: Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Dementia - Don’t Let the Science be Hijacked by Hype

Kevin J. Munro, PhD, MSc, Piers Dawes, PhD

May 13, 2024

There is an association between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and hearing loss is also a risk factor for dementia. This course reviews the evidence that hearing loss causes dementia and treating...   Read More

   


20Q: Changes to Auditory Processing and Cognition During Normal Aging – Should it Affect Hearing Aid Programming? Part 2 – Programming Hearing Aids for Older Adults

Richard Windle, PhD, MSc, CS

February 1, 2024

Part 1 discussed how a decline in some elements of cognition and auditory processing alters speech perception during normal aging. This course considers how hearing aids may help or hinder speech perc...   Read More

  


20Q: Changes to Auditory Processing and Cognition During Normal Aging – Should it Affect Hearing Aid Programming? Part 1 – Changes Associated with Normal Aging

Richard Windle, PhD, MSc, CS

January 8, 2024

Many aspects of cognition and auditory processing decline with normal aging, and this makes it difficult to hear in challenging situations, even without the additional problems caused by peripheral he...   Read More

  


20Q: Promoting Healthy Hearing Over the Lifespan - Considering Comorbidities

James W. Hall III, PhD

December 13, 2021

Collaborating closely with primary care physicians, audiologists can mitigate the development of hearing loss over a person's lifetime by looking at lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise, as wel...   Read More

  


20Q: Hearing Loss and the Health Care System

Nicholas Reed, AuD

July 22, 2019

A discussion of hearing loss in the broader context of health care, the many areas that may be impacted by hearing loss, and some initiatives underway to look at addressing hearing loss on a larger sc...   Read More

  


20Q: Hearing Loss and Dementia - Highlights from Key Research

Nicholas Reed, AuD

June 20, 2019

A discussion of hearing loss in older adults and its relationship to dementia and cognitive decline, based on the findings of current research.   Read More

   


20Q: The Importance of Cognitive Assessment in Audiology Practice

Pamela Souza, PhD

February 11, 2019

An engaging Q & A discussion regarding the rationale and considerations for cognitive assessment in clinical audiology.   Read More

  


20Q: Hearing Loss and Dementia - Association, Link or Causation?

Piers Dawes, PhD

January 9, 2017

1. I think I pretty much know what dementia is, but what is your definition? ‘Dementia’ describes a set of symptoms that include memory problems, language problems, personality changes or thinking...   Read More

   


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