Hearing aid user guides: Suitability for older adults

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 53, Issue S1, 2014, Pages

  Caposecco, Andrea ^a,b   Hickson, Louise ^a,b   Meyer, Carly ^a,b  

^a HEARing Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audiology; Health literacy; Hearing aid; Instructions; Older adults; Patient education; Readability

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COMPREHENSION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PACKAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; PRODUCT LABELING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84894193496     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2013.832417     Document Type: Article

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