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Author Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging (Workshop) (2014 : Washington, D.C.), author.

Title Hearing loss and healthy aging : workshop summary / Tracy A. Lustig and Steve Olson, rapporteurs ; Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ; Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 116 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction, background, and overview of the workshop -- Hearing loss: two perspectives -- The connection between hearing loss and healthy aging -- Current approaches to hearing health care delivery -- Hearing technologies -- Innovative models -- Contemporary issues in hearing health care -- Collaborative strategies for the future
Summary "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"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from resource home page (National Academies Press, viewed September 9, 2014)
Subject Deafness -- Congresses
Aging -- United States -- Congresses
Hearing disorders.
Older people.
Deafness -- United States -- Congresses
Hearing Disorders -- United States -- Congresses
Aged -- United States -- Congresses
Hearing Loss -- United States -- Congresses
Delivery of Health Care -- United States -- Congresses
Aged -- United States -- Congresses
Health Promotion -- United States -- Congresses
Deafness
Hearing Disorders
Aged
elderly.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Older people
Hearing disorders
Aging
Deafness
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Lustig, Tracy A., rapporteur.
Olson, Steve, 1956- rapporteur
Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, issuing body.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy, sponsoring body
National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, sponsoring body.
LC no. 2016302445
ISBN 9780309302272
0309302277