Why do Older Adults Delay in Seeking Help for Hearing Loss
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Why do Older Adults Delay in Seeking Help for Hearing Loss
Despite the fact that disabling, age related hearing loss or presbycusis affects around 360 million people globally World Health Organisation, there is quite often a lengthy delay between the time an individual first notices that they are having hearing difficulties and when they actually seek help from a hearing professional [1]. So why is it that people take so long to accept that their heari...
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OBJECTIVE To examine whether socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with progression in the health-seeking process for hearing loss. METHOD Logistic regression of data from a cross-sectional survey representative of noninstitutionalized, 50 years and older population of England (ELSA wave 2, 2004). Using self-reported hearing difficulty as starting point, we examined the association betwe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Otolaryngology-ENT Research
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2379-6359
DOI: 10.15406/joentr.2015.03.00070