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Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging - Workshop Summary (Paperback)
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Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging - Workshop Summary (Paperback)
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Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People
need to make themselves understood and to understand others to
remain cognitively and socially engaged with families, friends, and
other individuals. When they are unable to communicate, people with
hearing impairments can become socially isolated, and social
isolation can be an important driver of morbidity and mortality in
older adults. Despite the critical importance of communication,
many older adults have hearing loss that interferes with their
social interactions and enjoyment of life. People may turn up the
volume on their televisions or stereos, miss words in a
conversation, go to fewer public places where it is difficult to
hear, or worry about missing an alarm or notification. In other
cases, hearing loss is much more severe, and people may retreat
into a hard-to-reach shell. Yet fewer than one in seven older
Americans with hearing loss use hearing aids, despite rapidly
advancing technologies and innovative approaches to hearing health
care. In addition, there may not be an adequate number of
professionals trained to address the growing need for hearing
health care for older adults. Further, Medicare does not cover
routine hearing exams, hearing aids, or exams for fitting hearing
aids, which can be prohibitively expensive for many older adults.
Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging is the summary of a workshop
convened by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence in
January 2014 on age-related hearing loss. Researchers, advocates,
policy makers, entrepreneurs, regulators, and others discussed this
pressing social and public health issue. This report examines the
ways in which age-related hearing loss affects healthy aging, and
how the spectrum of public and private stakeholders can work
together to address hearing loss in older adults as a public health
issue.
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