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1 Introduction, Background, and Overview of the Workshop
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... 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 (Chien and Lin, 2012)
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... ; •  xamine and explore current and future areas of research on hearing loss E and healthy aging; •  iscuss comprehensive hearing rehabilitative strategies, including inno D vative models of care; •  xplore innovative hearing technologies, as well as barriers to their de E velopment and use; and •  onsider and discuss short- and long-term collaborative strategies, in C cluding public-private partnerships, for approaching age-related hearing loss as a public health priority, for example, developing preventive inter vention strategies; improving public awareness; and enhancing profes sional education. hearing aids, or exams for fitting hearing aids" (CMS, 2014)
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... Furthermore, the prevalence of hearing aid use has not changed substantially for decades in the United States or around the world, Lin said. A fundamental paradox surrounds hearing loss and the use of hearing FIGURE 1-1 Prevalence percentage of bilateral hearing loss in the United States by age.
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... Auditory functioning can be measured at multiple levels and in multiple ways, including otoacoustic emissions testing; pure tone audiometry; speech discrimination scores; central auditory measures such as speech in noise and dichotic listening; and subjective hearing and communicative function. These different measures depend both on peripheral inputs or bottom-up processing and on central processing or top-down processing.
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... Deficits in Hearing Health Care According to Lin, hearing health care is fragmented, expensive, and often inadequate. The hearing health care workforce includes not just physicians but also audiologists, hearing aid dispensers, community health workers, and others.
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... Higher levels of screening, enhanced education and counseling, rehabilitation strategies, greater use of community health workers, and outreach campaigns to both the hearing-impaired and general populations could greatly expand the visibility of the issue and the efforts being made to counter hearing loss. Research Gaps Lin concluded that much remains unknown about age-related hearing loss, including the relationship between hearing loss and other physical and cognitive deficits, the best ways to deliver hearing health care, and the effects of reimbursement on the use of hearing technologies.
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... Chapter 3 explores the link between hearing and those domains that characterize healthy aging, including physical, cognitive, and psychosocial functioning. Chapter 4 looks at current approaches to hearing health care delivery, both in the United States and abroad.


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