Journal article
Hearing Loss in the Elderly
Clinics in geriatric medicine, v 34(2), pp 163-174
May 2018
PMID: 29661329
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Abstract
Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss (ARHL), is the result of physiologic and pathologic changes associated with advancing age. ARHL presents typically with a high-frequency hearing loss, which contributes to greater trouble hearing consonants within words. Consonants convey the bulk of meaning within a word, and this loss of linguistic information results in complaints associated with ARHL. Hearing aids and cochlear implants significantly improve the lives of older adults with hearing loss, in particular, those with depression and dementia. Successful current research in gene therapy, pharmacotherapy, and stems cells holds the promise of being able to restore native cochlear function.
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- Title
- Hearing Loss in the Elderly
- Creators
- Rohan Patel - Drexel UniversityBrian J. McKinnon - Departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and Neurosurgery, 219 North Broad Street, 10th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
- Publication Details
- Clinics in geriatric medicine, v 34(2), pp 163-174
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Otolaryngology (and Head and Neck Surgery)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000433274500002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85041924599
- Other Identifier
- 991019169689004721
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