Hearing-aid use and long-term health outcomes: Hearing handicap, mental health, social engagement, cognitive function, physical health, and mortality

P Dawes, KJ Cruickshanks, ME Fischer… - … journal of audiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To clarify the impact of hearing aids on mental health, social engagement,
cognitive function, and physical health outcomes in older adults with hearing impairment …

Combined impairments in vision, hearing and cognition are associated with greater levels of functional and communication difficulties than cognitive impairment alone …

DM Guthrie, JGS Davidson, N Williams, J Campos… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Objectives The objective of the current study was to understand the added effects of having
a sensory impairment (vision and/or hearing impairment) in combination with cognitive …

Applied tele-audiology research in clinical practice during the past decade: a scoping review

K Muñoz, NK Nagaraj, N Nichols - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The purpose of this scoping review was two-fold,(1) to provide information about
the characteristics, type of service delivery, participant information and outcomes related to …

Long‐term cognitive prognosis of profoundly deaf older adults after hearing rehabilitation using cochlear implants

I Mosnier, A Vanier, D Bonnard… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To analyze long‐term cognitive status and function after cochlear implantation in
profoundly deaf individuals. Design Prospective observational longitudinal study. Setting …

Compensatory changes in cortical resource allocation in adults with hearing loss

J Campbell, A Sharma - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Hearing loss has been linked to many types of cognitive decline in adults, including an
association between hearing loss severity and dementia. However, it remains unclear …

Occupational noise: auditory and non-auditory consequences

A Sheppard, M Ralli, A Gilardi, R Salvi - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Occupational noise exposure accounts for approximately 16% of all disabling hearing
losses, but the true value and societal costs may be grossly underestimated because current …

Association of hearing loss and loneliness in older adults

Y Sung, L Li, C Blake, J Betz… - Journal of aging and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The objective of this study is to determine factors associated with loneliness in
older adults presenting for hearing loss treatment. Method: A cross-sectional analysis was …

Hearing, self-motion perception, mobility, and aging

J Campos, R Ramkhalawansingh, MK Pichora-Fuller - Hearing research, 2018 - Elsevier
Hearing helps us know where we are relative to important events and objects in our
environment and it allows us to track our changing position dynamically over space and …

Cognitive processing speed across the lifespan: beyond the influence of motor speed

D Ebaid, SG Crewther, K MacCalman… - Frontiers in aging …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Traditional neuropsychological measurement of cognitive processing speed with tasks such
as the Symbol Search and Coding subsets of the WAIS-IV, consistently show decline with …

The role of auditory and cognitive factors in understanding speech in noise by normal-hearing older listeners

T Schoof, S Rosen - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Normal-hearing older adults often experience increased difficulties understanding speech in
noise. In addition, they benefit less from amplitude fluctuations in the masker. These …