[Management of hearing impairment in adults].
Hearing impairment, mainly the deafness with possible distortions, assorted with tinnitus concerns about 4 million of the French population. It can be of variable severity. Deafness is an invisible disability until we must answer a question. The permanent improvement of the computer and microelectronics sciences benefit to the prosthetic devices: cochlear implants compensate for complete hearing loss, hearing aids are hidden by being miniaturized, being partially or totally implantable. The management of disability is not limited to this material part: human assistance and assistive devices are part of the armory. Rest to continue and to increase the financial support. This claim is obviously not specific to disability hearing although the hearing aid is only refunded 138 Euro per device for a unit cost from 1300 Euro to 2500 Euro with an observed lifetime of 4 or 5 years.
Frachet
Bruno
B
Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie, hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, 93009 Bobigny. bruno.frachet@club-internet.fr
Poncet-Wallet
Christine
C
Ernst
Imilie
I
Quéruel
Françoise
F
Eshraghi
Adrien
A
D000328:Adult; D003054:Cochlear Implants / Q000191:economics; D006310:Hearing Aids / Q000191:economics; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D012720:Severity of Illness Index