Audiologic Management of Older Adults With Hearing Loss and Compromised Cognitive/Psychoacoustic Auditory Processing Capabilities

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-28

  Kricos, Patricia B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ADULT; AGING; AUDIOLOGY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; HEARING ACUITY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOACOUSTIC AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED;

EID: 33745030104     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108471380601000102     Document Type: Article

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