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Volume 12
Beyond Cognition: The Critical Connection Between Hearing Health and Mental Well-being in Older Adults
The relationship between hearing health and overall well-being has long been recognized within audiology, yet we are still in the process of learning the full extent of this connection as new research emerges.
What’s New about Getting Older?
The reframing of the aging agenda has become a banner for Canadian strategies in research and government initiatives. Indeed, the 2023-28 Strategic Plan of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute on Aging is called Reframing Aging: Empowering Older Adults
What’s New about Getting Older
Beyond improving communication, it is imperative to position hearing healthcare in the broader context of healthy aging because there are important links between hearing health and many physical, mental, and social aspects.
Volume 11
How Well Do People with Early Onset Hearing Loss Age?
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down for a conversation with a late middle-aged neighbour who has lived with hearing loss since childhood. The conversation gave me some new insights into the differences between how aging adults adjust to late-onset hearing loss and how adults with early-onset hearing loss adjust to aging.
Loneliness is Not an Age-Related Problem that Audiologists Can Solve Alone
Communication enables social relationships. Positive social relationships can have widespread health benefits. In promoting healthy aging, could audiologists do more to overcome the social isolation and loneliness of those living with hearing loss?
Inter-professional Team Collaborations to Achieve Hearing Care in Integrated Person-centered Care for Older Adults: A New Year’s Resolution for 2024
I invite Canadian audiologists to join me in resolving to make 2024 the year to move hearing care into a new era of integrated person-centered, inter-professional primary care. Together we can help older adults to function better by working towards communication accessibility.
Volume 10
Hearing Care in Integrated Person-Centered Care for Older Adults: Can Audiologic Rehabilitation Help in Meeting the Key Challenge Areas for Aging Well in Canada?
With increasing age, it is increasingly likely that older adults will experience multiple health issues, including sensory, motor, vitality, and psychological (cognitive and/or mental) health issues. As audiologists, we can help people hear better and function better as listeners and communicators.
Managing Older Adults with Cognitive Health Worries
Audiologists must recognize the overwhelming impact of age-related hearing loss on an individual’s quality of life which may affect cognitive health, increase risk of falls and injuries and lead to lower well-being. Clinicians are called to expand the traditional evaluation process and management strategies to provide appropriate care and support to this vulnerable population.
Fundamentals of Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment and/or Dementia
With the increased focus on person centered care, the conversation surrounding aging has been reframed. Presently the biopsychosocial model prevails informed by primary, secondary and tertiary screening to promote healthy and successful aging.
Views of Aging: Positive Beliefs and Attitudes Matter for Hearing and Other Health Issues
One of the most perplexing epidemiological statistics for audiologist is that only about 1 in 5 people with audiometric hearing loss who might benefit from amplification use hearing aids. How can audiologists improve hearing care for older adults?