[Patients with hearing loss: a neglected patient group in medical practice. A contribution to the "psychological aspects" of hearing loss].
There are several reasons why the hearing impaired deserve special attention form the general practitioner: Their disability is not visible and therefore often goes unnoticed as an important additional diagnosis. Among older patients especially, there is a high proportion who are hard of hearing. These people suffer from very complex communication problems, which lead to many-sided difficulties in their daily lives and are the reason for their susceptibility to psycho-vegetative disturbances. Because of the difficulty of feeling one's way into the situation of the hard of hearing, their psychological-social suffering is often unrecognized or misunderstood by those around them. One of the aims of this contribution is to help the medical reader to better understand the psychological aspect of hearing impairment, and to recommend well-tried out methods for doctors dealing with deafened or hard of hearing patients.
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Zentrum der Psychiatrie, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012803:Sick Role
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