[Adult deafness: hearing aid or hearing repair...].
With the increase in lifespan, presbyacusis is a common situation. It starts with the difficulty of understanding in noisy conditions and may extend to withdrawal of social activity because we do not face the unintelligibility during diners and meetings. But, with difficulty, the hearing impaired confesses his deafness and hardly recognizes "his" presbyacusis. It will last approximately 10 years, 10 years with lost of profit from his entourage. The practitioner who meets more frequently this range of 60-65 years people should be able to detect this beginning deafness, or set the stage of presbyacusis. The obstruction of the ear canal by wax, that is not one, requires an active approach. These are the semiological elements we need to know for these 2 quite common situations.
Frachet
Bruno
B
Hôpital Avicenne, service ORL, AP-HP, 93009 Bobigny Cedex. bruno.frachet@avc.aphp.fr
D000328:Adult; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*