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BT1. Evidence of a Dementia – Hearing Loss Link
This report covers a study regarding the future of dementia in Americans. “By 2050, 1 in 30 Americans will suffer from dementia.” It discusses how untreated hearing loss can increase a person’s risk of dementia.
BT2. The Triple Threat of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is a disability in itself. Hearing loss interferes with a patient’s ability to treat their other medical conditions because they cannot engage with physicians to understand treatment. And studies show that hearing loss may accelerate some disabilities.
BT3. The Co-Morbid Condition of Hearing Loss
Many studies have shown that untreated hearing loss can be linked to many other health conditions such as dementia, diabetes, and increased risk of falling.
BT4. What Happens When Your Patient Doesn’t Hear You
This report discusses many important elements of an exam and discussions with a patients that may be lost when the patients has untreated hearing loss. Not being able to understand physician recommendations and diagnosis can be dangerous for a patient’s health.
BT5. Hearing Loss and Depression
This report covers research suggesting that individuals suffering from hearing loss are more likely to also suffer from the ill-effects of depression.
BT6. The Manifestation of Age-Related Hearing Loss
The manifestation of age-related hearing loss in many older adults are subtle and hence, hearing loss is often perceived as an unfortunate but inconsequential part of aging. This report shows how hearing loss is not harmless.
BT7. Cognition and Hearing Aids Usage
This report covers a research study that demonstrates how hearing aids can benefit the cognitive skills of a patient with hearing loss.
BT8. Hearing Aids and Comprehensive Care
This report indicates that hearing loss is associated with poor quality of life among older people and may lead to increased health and mood disorders; hearing loss may also increase risk of mortality.
BT9. Impact of Self-Assessed Hearing Loss on a Spouse: A Longitudinal Analysis of Couples
This report analyses the relationship between a spouse’s self-assessed hearing loss and his or her partner’s physical, psychological, and social well-being five years later.
BT10. Don’t Let Unaddressed Hearing Loss Spiral into Depression
This report shows how unaddressed hearing loss is associates with depression; but studies also show that people with hearing loss who use hearing aids often have fewer depressive symptoms, greater social engagement, and improved quality of life.
BT11. Here are Five Little-Known Facts about Today’s Hearing Aids…
This report helps physicians get a deeper understanding of today’s hearing aid technology, such as waterproof aids, soundscape adjustment, and smartphone compatibility.
BT12. Hearing Loss and Social Isolation
This report covers how hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in the elderly, and it is becoming a severe social and health problem.
BT13. Coping with Annoying and Bothersome Tinnitus
This report discussed the struggles associated with tinnitus and the best ways to cope and find treatment through treatment programs and maskers.
BT14. Fall Risk Doubles Every 10 Years Above Age 40
This report discusses a study that found vestibular thresholds begin to double every 10 years above the age of 40 suggesting a decline in an aging person’s ability to receive sensory information about motion, balance, and spatial orientation.
BT15. Hearing Loss Health Care for Older Adults: Device Effectiveness
This report discusses how those with hearing loss often seek out devices to help improve their hearing and the role a hearing care provider can take when selecting the right device for the patient.
BT16. Hearing Loss Health Care for Older Adults: Awareness & Implications 1
This article discusses how hearing loss occurs gradually over many years, many adults are unaware of their loss. There are two underlying biological processes at work that explain the insidious nature of age-related hearing loss: damaged hair cells and deterioration of the auditory cortex.
BT17. Hearing Loss Health Care for Older Adults: Awareness & Implications 2
This report discusses how age, vascular risk factors, and social factors are some of the underlying contributors to the linkage between hearing loss and these poorer health outcomes.
BT18. Hearing Loss Health Care for Older Adults: Access to Hearing Health Care
This report discusses the prevalence of hearing loss doubles with every decade increase in age, thus about two-thirds of adults over the age of 70 have hearing loss that affects daily communication. Fortunately, the communication needs of older adults can be addressed by comprehensive audiology care.
BT19. Hearing Loss Health Care for Older Adults: Treatment Options
This report covers that the primary goal of hearing loss treatment is to ensure that an individual can effectively communicate in their daily lives and the best treatment options available.
BT20. Older Adults Annoyed By British Accents and Fast-Talking Women
This report discusses how more than 70% of older Americans have some degree of hearing loss and many of them have trouble understanding British TV sagas. Fast talking makes speech less intelligible, more so of women rather than men are speaking quickly.
BT21. Study Finds Tinnitus is an Under Treated Condition
This report indicates that tinnitus affects nearly 10% of the adult population in the U.S and more than half of individuals with tinnitus do not discuss it with their doctor.
BT22. Study Links Noise to Cardiovascular Conditions
This report discusses that those exposed to traffic noise levels greater than 60 dB were 5 to 9% more likely to be admitted to the hospital for strokes compared to individuals exposed to noise levels below 55 dB. Additionally, the researchers found that all-cause mortality was 4% higher for people living in noisy neighborhoods.
BT23. Tinnitus Management & Treatment Options
This report informs readers that the vast majority of tinnitus sufferers can be helped by a hearing care professional who specializes in one of the many tinnitus management programs on the market today.
BT24. Updates on Hearing Loss Prevalence: Affects More People than You May Think
This report references two recent studies that shed light on hearing loss prevalence. After all, if more people are living longer we are likely to see more of them in our clinics complaining of chronic conditions associated with growing older.
BT25. Hearing Loss and the Risk of Falling
This article discusses how a hearing loss can be a red flag for a risk of falling.
BT26. Hearing and Vision Impairment and the 5-Year Incidence of Falls in Older Adults
This report discusses how patients with both hearing impairment and vision impairment are two times as likely to suffer the debilitating consequences of a fall.
BT27. Older Adults pose a Great Risk of Falling
This report discusses a study that evaluated whether a hearing evaluation could be used to assess a future fall risk in older adults.
BT28. Hearing Difficulties and Feelings of Loneliness
This report covers the fact that one of the most devastating long-term effects of an untreated hearing loss in older adults is social isolation.
BT29. The Experience of Hearing Loss of Adult Onset
This report discusses how hearing loss can have a negative effect on many physical and mental aspects of a person’s life. This report encouraged a physician to advise their patients with hearing loos to see a hearing care professional who can find an amplification device to fit their needs.
BT30. Hearing Acuity is Often Ignored in Medical Research
This report suggests that research on communication between healthcare professionals and older adults has largely overlooked a highly prevalent, important, and remediable influence on the quality of communication: hearing loss.
BT31. Hearing Aids Slow Down Cognitive Decline, Says New JAGS Study
This report discusses the relationship between cognitive ability and hearing aid use in older adults has drawn considerable interest over the past several years for obvious reasons.
BT32. Mismatch between Speech Perception and Auditory Perception in Older Adults Warrants Intervention
This report discusses the research results that provide new evidence that speech perception involves cortical activity where we compare what we hear with what we expect to hear.
BT33. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Tinnitus Relief
This article discusses new findings for tinnitus relief through cognitive therapy. The two studies in this article indicate that rank and file clinicians can effectively provide CBT to individuals with bothersome tinnitus.
RT1. Evidence of a Dementia – Hearing Loss Link
This report covers a study regarding the future of dementia in Americans. “By 2050, 1 in 30 Americans will suffer from dementia.” It discusses how untreated hearing loss can increase a person’s risk of dementia.
RT2. The Triple Threat of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is a disability in itself. Hearing loss interferes with a patient’s ability to treat their other medical conditions because they cannot engage with physicians to understand treatment. And studies show that hearing loss may accelerate some disabilities.
RT3. The Co-Morbid Condition of Hearing Loss
Many studies have shown that untreated hearing loss can be linked to many other health conditions such as dementia, diabetes, and increased risk of falling.
RT4. What Happens When Your Patient Doesn’t Hear You
This report discusses many important elements of an exam and discussions with a patients that may be lost when the patients has untreated hearing loss. Not being able to understand physician recommendations and diagnosis can be dangerous for a patient’s health.
RT5. Hearing Loss and Depression
This report covers research suggesting that individuals suffering from hearing loss are more likely to also suffer from the ill-effects of depression.
RT6. The Manifestation of Age-Related Hearing Loss
The manifestation of age-related hearing loss in many older adults are subtle and hence, hearing loss is often perceived as an unfortunate but inconsequential part of aging. This report shows how hearing loss is not harmless.
RT7. Cognition and Hearing Aids Usage
This report covers a research study that demonstrates how hearing aids can benefit the cognitive skills of a patient with hearing loss.
RT8. Hearing Aids and Comprehensive Care
This report indicates that hearing loss is associated with poor quality of life among older people and may lead to increased health and mood disorders; hearing loss may also increase risk of mortality.
RT9. Impact of Self-Assessed Hearing Loss on a Spouse: A Longitudinal Analysis of Couples
This report analyses the relationship between a spouse’s self-assessed hearing loss and his or her partner’s physical, psychological, and social well-being five years later.
RT10. Here are Five Little-Known Facts about Today’s Hearing Aids…
This report helps physicians get a deeper understanding of today’s hearing aid technology, such as waterproof aids, soundscape adjustment, and smartphone compatibility.
RT11. Don’t Let Unaddressed Hearing Loss Spiral into Depression
This report shows how unaddressed hearing loss is associates with depression; but studies also show that people with hearing loss who use hearing aids often have fewer depressive symptoms, greater social engagement, and improved quality of life.
RT12. Hearing Loss and Social Isolation
This report covers how hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in the elderly, and it is becoming a severe social and health problem.
RT13. White and Mexican American Males at Disproportionately High Risk for Hearing Loss
This report discusses the costs of increased medical needs and diminished autonomy associated with hearing loss are shared by society, and hearing loss may reach epidemic status by 2050 as more older workers reach retirement age.
RT14. Cigarette Smoking Connected to Hearing Loss in Population-Based Study
This report discusses how cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for chronic diseases, and it’s a lifestyle choice that may be a factor in hearing loss later in life.
RT15. An Examination of Cardiovascular Health and Hearing Case History
This report covers the important connections between the heart and hearing health, as cardiovascular disease can affect speech understanding and the speed and accuracy in which elements of speech are processed.
RT16. Study: Adults with Hearing Loss More Susceptible to Cognitive Impairment
This report informs the reader that though there are a number of possible causes of dementia in the elderly, preventative hearing care measures and more aggressive treatment of hearing impairment can help keep the brain healthy and active.
RT17. Study: Diabetes Linked to Hearing Loss in Nationally Representative Study
This report discusses the known associations with hearing loss and the high provenance rates imply that many individuals are susceptible to possible functional and social limitations.
RT18. Falls More Common Among Individuals with Hearing Loss
This report references a study to show the relationship between untreated hearing loss and falling in older adults. The study confirms that hearing loss is a significant factor in incident falls, as a mild hearing loss made patients nearly three times as likely to have reported a fall.
RT19. Study: Hearing Loss Associated with Increased Incidence of Hospitalization
This report discusses how hearing loss affects nearly two thirds of adults aged 70 or older, and it has been independently associated with cognitive impairment and poor physical functioning.
JB1. Care Coordination Requires Effective Communication
This article discusses the value of a case management system that allows a single patient’s multiple health care providers to coordinate on his or her care and keep evaluations well documented. This report encouraged collaboration between the primary care provider and the hearing care specialist.
JB2. From Managed Care to Accountable Care to High Value Care
his article discusses the difference between Managed Care, Accountable Care, and High Value Care in regards to insurance in the health care system.
JB3. Why Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss Should be Treated
This report discusses the importance of treating mild to moderate hearing loss because it can contribute significantly to common medical problems, from depression to the progression of dementia.
JB4. Advertising Patients about Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
This article discusses the value of a hearing care specialist when it comes to fitting a patients with the right hearing aids. Despite the introduction of over the counter hearing aids, primary care physicians should still refer a patient to a hearing care specialist in order to ensure the best match for the patient’s needs.
JB5. Why Patient Engagement is More important Than Ever
This report discusses verbal communication as the key to patient engagement. Primary care physicians need to engage with their patients and discuss all the facets of their health care. However, if the patient has a hearing loss, that line of communication is not successful.
JB6. Primary Care and “Population Health”
This report discusses how insurance companies view your patients as a population, and they want to do everything they can to avoid that population entering the hospital. Therefore, insurance companies encourage primary care physicians to identify warning signs of issues like mild hearing loss in order to give the patient the appropriate medial care and make a successful referral.
JB7. Referral Networks for Primary Care
This report covers important features of the referral process for the primary care physician: making the referral take minimum time for staff, the patient is seen promptly, the patient is satisfied with the care they receive, and there is clarity about the results of the referral.
JB8. The Relationship Between Hearing Loss and Systemic Disease
This report discusses how several years ago, mild hearing loss was nothing to worry about, but recently new studies have come out revealing that even mild hearing loss can be linked to a number of diseases and conditions.
JB9. Willie Sutton and The Money
This report compares Willie Sutton’s bank robbing career to healthcare expenditures. It discusses the importance of reaching at risk patients before the end up in the Emergency Room.
SY1. Universal Infant and Newborn Hearing Screenings
This article discusses the role an Audiologist plays during Universal Infant and Newborn Hearing Screening. They play an intricate role in confirming or refuting the presence of hearing loss in infants and
newborns, as well as comforting, educating, and guiding the family when results do confirm the presence of hearing loss.
SY2. Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Adolescents
This article discusses the hearing health risk posed to adolescents by the frequent use of earphones and headphones. It discusses the importance of visiting an audiologist as a child for routine hearing tests to identify a baseline hearing status to monitor the health of the cochlea as the child advances into adulthood.
SY3. Need for Early Identification of Slight/Mild Hearing Loss in Children
This article discusses the prevalence of mild and unilateral hearing loss in school-aged children. Even this slight impairment in hearing sensitivity can result in academic, social, and behavioral challenges. It
discusses the importance seeing an Audiologist for testing and the positive results of identifying children with hearing loss as early as possible.
SY4. Minimal Hearing Loss Negatively Affects Communication in Children
This article discusses the impact of minimal hearing loss on a child’s social interactions and the need to identify hearing loss and provide medical, educational, speech and language, and/or audiologic intervention during the early stages of a child’s life.
SY5. Clumsiness, Frequent Falls, and Hearing Loss in Young Children
This article discusses the possible presence of hearing loss in those children who seem to show more frequent activities of falling or stumbling than others. Hearing tests are recommended for children who have been reported to be extraordinarily “clumsy” or have frequent falls not due to normal childhood recklessness.
SY6. Noisy Toys can Cause Hearing Loss
This article indicates that noisy toys can damage a child’s hearing and cites several examples of the type of toys and conditions that can be harmful. To protect young ears from loud noises, it is an important first step to proactively visit an audiologist to obtain a baseline audiogram.
SY7. Autism Spectrum Disorder
This article discusses autism as a pervasive disorder that is often exemplified by children as being unable to form personal relationships, unwilling to engage in conversations, and non-responsive or hyper responsive to visual and auditory stimuli. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is common among children who also have hearing loss. Treating hearing loss, whether medically or through aural rehabilitation, will improve the ASD child's ability to respond to their primary therapies.
SY8. Hearing Loss: An Unintended Consequence
This article highlights that today's American population is living longer than ever and experiencing lifestyles extraordinarily different than their parent's version of "the golden years." Unfortunately, there are many health-related conditions that challenge the pursuit of this anticipated lifestyle because they increase the susceptibility to hearing loss. Earlier clinical hearing assessments and appropriate management of hearing loss can assure a better quality of life.
SY9. Precautions for Grandparents Who are Caregivers to Their Grandchildren
This article discusses why seniors that are actively engaged in care giving roles with their grandchildren need to be aware of the possible negative consequences of untreated hearing loss. Various steps need to be completed such as an annual hearing test prior to providing care for children.
SY10. Why Preventative Medicine Plans Must Include Hearing Evaluations
This article outlines how age related sensorineural hearing loss impacts the ability of humans to participate fully in society when not properly treated. The need for a comprehensive audiologic evaluation is critical in preserving good hearing health and quality of life.
SY11. Better Hearing is Highlighted in the the Month of May
To raise awareness about communication disorders, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) joins the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in observing Better Hearing and Speech Month annually each May.
SY12. Legislation is Introduced Just in Time for May's Better Hearing Month
On March 20, 2018, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced the Audiology Patient Choice Act, a bipartisan bill that ensures seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare have access to a full range of hearing and balance health care services provided by licensed audiologists.
SY13. Restoring Quality of Life for the Dizziness Patient
This article outlines how Audiologists perform a variety of exams that identify vestibular disorders related to the peripheral and central vestibular systems.
SY14. Dizziness, Audiologists, and Healthy People 2020
This article outlines how Healthy People 2020 is the result of a multiyear process that reflects input from a diverse group of individuals and organizations. Organized by the ODPHP is an ambitious, yet achievable, 10-year agenda for improving the Nation’s health.
SY15. Reducing Risk of Fall in Older Americans
This article discusses a three-year study performed by Johns Hopkins researches and involving 5000 men and women had reported that one third of adults in the US over age 40 were up to 12 times more likely to have a serious fall because they have some form of inner-ear dysfunction that makes them dizzy.
SY16. Preventing Hearing Loss Isolation during the Holidays
This article discusses strategies to prevent hearing loss isolation during the holidays. Offer your patients the opportunity to enjoy their families during this festive season in a less stressful, more engaging way.
SY17. Maintaining Family Connections for the Hearing Impaired During the Holidays
This article covers ways to improve the holiday experience for hearing-impaired patients.
SY18. Hormone Therapies May Cause Hearing Loss
This article discusses the use of OTC drugs and prescriptive medications and their effect on hearing with prolonged use or high dosage.
SY19. Hearing Loss Impacts Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
This article highlights the importance of diagnosing an individual’s ability or inability to perform Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), and discusses its importance for evaluating one’s quality of life.
SY20. Hearing Care Services Decrease Senior Isolation
This article discusses strategies, according to the Better Hearing Institute, that can help reduce isolation with aging seniors.
SY21. Sleep Apnea Linked to Medical Conditions Including Hearing Loss
This article discusses OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnea) and the effects on hearing loss. The presence of untreated hearing loss has negative consequences on communication resulting mental and psychological conditions such as dementia and depression.
SY22. Hearing Loss Incident and Management in the Nursing Profession
This article focuses on early identification and proper treatment of hearing loss that will allow hearing-impaired nursing professionals to continue the quality care they expertly provide well into their golden years.
CM1. Can You Hear My Music? How Loud Is Too Loud?
This report discusses hearing loss and the consequences of noise exposure. Although hearing loss becomes more common with age, noise exposure is also a leading cause. Preventative tips are included in the article.
CM2. Cocktail Party Problems - Difficulty Hearing With Background Noise
As we age, our cognitive processes and sensory inputs change, making use of both bottom-up and top-down processing more challenging. This article discusses approaches we can use to maximize speech understanding in the presence of background noise. In audiology, we talk about good communication strategies for those with and without hearing loss.
CM3. Firearms and Earplugs
This article discusses the often ignored conversation of hearing protection while using recreational firearms. Often, individuals will not wear hearing protection when firing weapons because they believe the shot is quick enough to eliminate or reduce damage, because they are concerned with being able to hear sounds in the environment, or because they believe the type of gun they have chosen is not loud enough to cause damage.
CM4. Communication Strategies
Often people with hearing loss and their loved ones believe that their communication difficulties are due only to poor hearing. There are plenty of other factors, however, that can lead to communication breakdowns. This article explains valuable strategies to use when communicating.
CM5. Types of Hearing Loss
This article identifies the different types of hearing loss in terms of type, degree and configuration.
CM6. Language Types
American Sign Language and speech is the topic of this article. Research form New York University explains how spoken speech uses the same neural circuits as American Sign Language.
CM7. Better Communication / Better Results
This article promotes by simply identifying and treating hearing loss on the front lines, healthcare outcomes can be greatly improved for the benefit of both the patients and the providers.
CM8. Who's Who in Audiology
Hearing healthcare has many professionals and their educational descriptions are included in this valuable article. Understanding their critical role in the hearing health marketplace is key.
CM9. Diabetes and Hearing Health
This article describes the co-morbid link of diabetes and hearing loss. Key statistics are provided from the CDC and National Institute for Health (NIH) that explain this connection.
CM10. Hear for Holidays
What can be done to optimize conversations during the holidays? This article describes changing our communication strategies, listening environment and use of amplification can help. A valuable list of strategies are explained to help with holiday communication and potential stress.
CM11. Advances in Hearing Healthcare
This article covers the complex process of human hearing and the futuristic goal of repairing existing damage. University research regarding restoring hearing through regenerating sensory hair cells is underway.
CM12. Truth About Earwax
Each year, approximately 12 million people in the U.S. are seen by medical professionals for impacted or excessive cerumen. This article covers earwax FAQ's and tips to keep your ears clean.
AD1. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
This article details BPPV as the most common cause of episodic vertigo. Discussion about this balance disorder along with diagrams will provide valuable insight for your readers.
AD2. Meclizine (Antivert) for Dizziness?
This article discusses the use of Meclizine for dizziness and vertigo symptoms. For a medication that is so widely used, there is very little solid information available, creating potential for confusion regarding application and potential side effects. Meclizine is also packaged under the names Antivert, Bonine, and Dramamine II.
AD3. Motion Sickness and Sensory Conflict
This article discusses motion sickness as a mismatch between sensory information arriving at the brain from the inner ear, the eyes, and the proprioceptive system (the sense of touch).
AD4. Migraine and Vertigo Link
Migraine is a common cause of vertigo, yet the symptoms and temporal pattern differ enough from classic migraine that the International Headache Society has established a criteria for “Vestibular Migraine” listed at the end of this article.
AD5. Blood Pressure and Dizziness
This article discusses blood pressure and dizziness in healthy patients as well as those with BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo).
AD6. The Role of Audiometry in Evaluating Dizziness
This article explains the role of Audiometry in evaluating dizziness. This comprehensive evaluation alone will not allow a firm diagnosis of any specific vestibular disorder, but must be combined with certain audiometric patterns.
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