Aging CEU Courses

Healthcare professionals serve an important role for older adults amidst COVID-19 as we address activities of daily living (ADL), safety, quality of life, mental health, and other areas directly impacted by this virus. This text course will discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on how healthcare providers approach treatment with older adults.

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 well as associated co-morbidities.

Audiologists have an opportunity to prevent or mitigate hearing loss in children and adults. This webinar (Part 2) focuses on the importance of including information about comorbid conditions in the audiologic assessment and management.

The level of evidence connecting brain health and hearing health continues to expand, as does the use of hearing intervention as a mitigation strategy for cognitive decline. The need and demand for an appropriate, modern cognitive testing method for use in audiology practice is clear. This program will present Cognivue Thrive, a new cognitive screening tool that overcomes the common barriers that have limited the practical implementation of cognitive screening in audiology, and provide practical information on how to implement cognitive screening as part of expanded evaluation and outcome measures.

In this two-part series, attendees will be introduced to the concept of health economics, and its importance in determining how to improve health outcomes and lifestyle patterns through interactions among individuals, providers, and clinical settings.

In the second part of this two-part series, attendees will be introduced to the concept of health economics, and its importance in determining how to improve health outcomes and lifestyle patterns through interactions among individuals, providers, and clinical settings.

In this first part of a two-part series, attendees will be introduced to the concept of health economics, and its importance in determining how to improve health outcomes and lifestyle patterns through interactions among individuals, providers, and clinical settings.

The role of amplification on cognition and general well-being of the wearer is increasingly recognized, but the role of specific hearing aid features in this process is also important, as processing features of hearing aids could affect the ease of understanding. In this seminar, Dr. Kuk will use a cognitive model to explain why processing delay on a hearing aid could affect the user’s experience with amplification.

This presentation will review and evaluate recent public health research that demonstrates the implications of hearing loss for the health and functioning of older adults, particularly with respect to cognitive functioning, brain aging, and dementia. It will focus on the strengths and limitations of epidemiologic research in order to provide practicing audiologists with some basic tools needed to interpret and apply epidemiologic research in the clinical setting, as well as to define priorities for future research.

As our main target audience for hearing care shifts into the Baby Boom generation, so should our understanding of how these individuals view the aging process. The well-known attitudes and behaviors of this new generation of seniors will inevitably affect how they respond to developing communication difficulties.