Hearing aids re-habilitation in aged people
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چکیده
Presbyacusis is defined as the cumulative effects of aging on hearing ability. Each of them commonly feature different impairments, e.g on: sound hearing (mostly for high frequencies), speech understanding (mostly in noise), delayed speech processing by NCS and sound source localization. Its fuzzy and unclear simptomatology frequently leads to a delayed detection. In addition, the affected subjects rarely contact a specialist in order to sharply deal with such occurrences. Furthermore, whenever the presbyacusis is detected, only a small amount of patients will use hearing aids. To date, in US only the 20% of people supposed to need a hearing support, wear hearing aids and the 25-40% of those patients either leave or use them unevenly. Aims of this report are:
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