[Hearing intervention for > or =55 years old people with hearing impairment within five years recently].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the status of hearing intervention for old people with hearing loss.


METHODS
Through retrospective analyzing the data from 55 and up 55 years old people with hearing loss who received hearing intervention in five years (from 2000 - 2004) recently.


RESULTS
There were 1008 person-times that received hearing examination within five years, 907 person-times speech frequency pure tone average (PTA) > 26 dB,there were only 73 people with hearing aid, and their speech frequency PTA > 55 dB.


CONCLUSIONS
The hearing intervention situation for old people isn't perfect. It needs audiologists cooperate with the family of old people, the whole society and the old people themselves to help them in hearing and improve their quality of life.
Lian
Bing
B
Department of Otolaryngology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China. tlianb@jnu.edu.cn
Wang
Jiqun
J
Shan
Yanchun
Y
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids; D034381:Hearing Loss; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies