Moderate-medicalisation and an age-neutral NHS hearing aid service

Hearing aid fitting in a digital age

This paper introduces SoundPoint, a new patientassisted fine tuning process that complements the traditional fitting process by placing control of sound quality in the hands of the patient. The SoundPoint system offers an elegant alternative to the method of ‘interview and adjust’ by providing any patient with the ability to navigate through a perceptual world of possible hearing aid adjustment...

Auditory profiling and hearing-aid satisfaction in hearing-aid candidates.

INTRODUCTION Hearing-impaired (HI) listeners often complain about difficulties communicating in the presence of background noise, although audibility may be restored by a hearing-aid (HA). The audiogram typically forms the basis for HA fitting, i.e. people with similar audiograms are given the same prescription by default. This study aimed at identifying clinically relevant tests that may serve...

Ebrahim The medicalisation of old age

a comparison of mental health in hearing-impaired elderly with hearing aid and without hearing aid

hearing loss can affect physical, mental and social health of deaf adults and lead cause depression, anxiety, isolation, suspicion and stress. this study was aimed to compare mental health in the hearing-impaired elderly with hearing aid and hearing-impaired elderly without hearing aids referring to ahvaz imam khomeini hospital. in this cross- sectional study, the participants included 72 heari...

Hearing aid fitting in older persons with hearing impairment: the influence of cognitive function, age, and hearing loss on hearing aid benefit

PURPOSE To examine the association of cognitive function, age, and hearing loss with clinically assessed hearing aid benefit in older hearing-impaired persons. METHODS Hearing aid benefit was assessed using objective measures regarding speech recognition in quiet and noisy environments as well as a subjective measure reflecting everyday situations captured using a standardized questionnaire. ...