Volume 10
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Thank you to everyone who make the Canadian Academy of Audiology what it is Our e-publication, CanadianAudiologist.ca is now one decade old. With its previous incarnation, the Canadian Hearing Report, the Canadian Academy of Audiology has provided its members with cutting-edge articles and columns touching on all aspects of audiology. Given this special decade-anniversary, it…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
The ACHIEVE Study Results Do NOT Provide Evidence that “Hearing Aids Prevent Dementia” Over this past summer, the ACHIEVE study was presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Amsterdam and published in the Lancet by Dr. Frank Lin and his colleagues. ACHIEVE stands for Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (and I have…
Message from the Editor
Its Summertime, So RELAX! The editorial committee of CanadianAudiologist.ca has wanted to run a light-hearted humour issue for quite some time now, and what better time than our tenth year of publication during July when we are trying to slow down a bit and regenerate. Each of our stories in this issue are audiology-related, but…
Hearing Better Can Help You Think Better
The February 2023 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society had a must-read article. It is only 4 pages long but serves to re-orient our perspective when it comes to a link between cognitive decline and hearing loss. The article is called “It is time to change our message about hearing loss and…
Message from the Editor in Chief
Bluetooth (which turns 25 years old in May 2023) is not only a ghost’s favourite form of wireless transmission… actually, that’s Boootooth… but it may be coming to theatres soon. One of the most common telephone calls I receive clinically is about a Bluetooth-related problem. It could be an intermittency issue, an unpairing problem, or…
Is Hearing Loss in Older Adults Predictive of Later Development of Dementia and Does Hearing Care Modify Dementia Risk?
This paper provides an overview of the rapidly expanding research evidence-base concerning connections between hearing and cognition. It underscores the importance of distinguishing between measures to evaluate performance on various domains of cognition in healthy older adults versus measures to screen for dementia and emphasizes that correlation does not prove causation.
Volume 9
I Only Knew 10% of the People that I Met at the CAA Conference!
I wouldn’t say that I am old and I still have at least another decade in the field, but for the first time, at the CAA annual conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I only knew a very small fraction of those who attended. And this is a good thing. On one hand this suggests that…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
I am 18 months behind in my reading! So, I fully admit that while I am up to date, and being a peer reviewer for many journals, am even better than up to date in many areas of audiology, my reading on the subject area of “hidden hearing loss” has lagged. My latest understanding of…
The meaning of Susan Scollie [ska:li]
The verb “to Scollie” is defined in the Dictionary of Seewald Language (DSL) as “to get things done” as in ‘will you please Scollie this article for me?’. The implication is that Susan Scollie will correct any errors in the article and do it quickly without hesitation. The etymology is not clear but it is…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Non-auditory Effects of Lower-Level Environmental Noise This issue of CanadianAudiologist.ca is about audiology and also not about audiology. The topic of how lower levels of environmental noise affect the body has been formally studied since 1946, yet has not shown anything definitive about long-term effects related to sleep disruption, annoyance, or overall stress. The following…