Aging CEU Courses

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.

The majority of hearing aid users are older adults and, thus, it is incumbent to understand the nature of their perceptual difficulties. In this seminar, the effects of aging in combination with hearing loss on spoken language understanding will be examined.

Research has shown that there are known associations between hearing loss and cognitive abilities. Cognitive decline has been seen to be accelerated in people with hearing loss. Several hypotheses exist regarding the underlying mechanisms driving the described associations. Science is currently trying to find the most likely explanation. One of the more researched hypotheses is that impoverished auditory input leads to decreased cognition - So can hearing aids delay the issue? The session will give an overview of the current state of knowledge.

This course reports on research which has studied the feasibility of using hearing-aid-assisted TeleCare for follow-up assistance for new hearing aid users who have mild cognitive impairment.