A holistic model for matching high-tech hearing aid features to elderly patients.
Successful hearing aid fittings using high-technology features for elderly patients require consideration of factors beyond results obtained from routine audiologic evaluations. A holistic hearing aid selection, fitting, and evaluation approach that considers patient characteristics from communication, physical, psychological, and social assessment domains is presented here along with a checklist and flowcharts for matching high-tech hearing aid features to older persons who are hearing aid candidates.
Johnson
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Department of Communication Disorders, 1199 Haley Center, Auburn University, AL 36849-5232, USA. johns19@mail.auburn.edu
Danhauer
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Krishnamurti
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D018579:Patient Selection; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D017755:Prosthesis Fitting; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D012984:Software