Psychological Effects of Hearing Aid use in Older Adults
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Psychological effects of hearing aid use in older adults.
Hearing impairment in older adults is a chronic condition with high prevalence that shows negative correlations with communication, social integration, well-being, and cognition. In the present study, a group of elderly individuals with mild to moderate hearing loss who received a hearing aid for the first time in their lives (aural rehabilitation group, n = 70) and two age-matched control grou...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1079-5014,1758-5368
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/52b.3.p127