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Volume 13
Diabetes and Hearing Loss: Implications for Comprehensive Audiological Care
This article reviews research confirming that diabetes significantly doubles the prevalence of hearing loss, often affecting higher frequencies at an earlier age. The authors identify a major knowledge-to-practice gap and call for integrated care pathways that routinely blend audiological monitoring into standard diabetes management to improve long-term patient health outcomes.
Volume 11
Hearing and Nutrition: Why Integrated Care Could be Beneficial
Connections between hearing and nutrition that might be important in integrated inter-professional primary care for older adults may involve malnutrition, obesity, dietary patterns, and diabetes. The connection between hearing and diabetes is also relevant to vision as a key capacity. These connections allow hearing care to play a role in integrated care to promote healthy aging.