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Presbycusis: Can You Hear the Music of Life?
Type of Presentation
Poster Session (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
The study established whether participants with hearing impairment and Alzheimer's disease would recognize their hearing impairment, value hearing treatment, and improve their quality of life in 30 days.
Target Audience
Educators, physicians, gerontologists, nurses, social workers, social scientists, and others who work directly with older persons, as well as managers and staff of not-for-profit and government agencies serving the elderly.
Learning Outcomes
(a) The music of life is the union of rhythms, melodies, and harmonies in the environment that cultures have reproduced musically since recorded history.
(b) Hearing rhythms and pulsed sound improves movement and balance to prevent falling
(c) Hearing melodies and harmonies stimulate brain activity, which guards against emotional stress, depression, isolation, cognitive decline, and a weak immune system.
(d) Self-monitoring hearing by speech and environmental sounds is wise.
(e) Audiology treatment benefits people physiologically, emotionally, psychologically, and socially so they can better meet behaviorally the demands of living.
(f) Untreated hearing loss causes 70 known chronic diseases and dementia.
Session Description
Hearing impairment and dementia are chronic illnesses that threaten human health, autonomy, and long life. Prompt treatment can prevent disease or lessen symptoms. If more people knew of the mental and physical consequences of untreated hearing loss, they might either prevent damage to their hearing or correct the impairment with hearing technology or surgery soon after noticing the loss of perceived sound. Unlike other functions of the body that are strong, the ear consists of three fragile mechanisms that interact with the brain: (1) the outer ear, (2) the middle ear, and (3) the inner ear. The ear is susceptible to four types of hearing loss that may overlap to different sections of the ear during the life of an individual: (1) otitis externa and otitis media inflammations (2) conductive hearing loss (3) sensorineural hearing loss, and (4) presbycusis.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Barbara Hutchison, North Dakota State University, School of Education, Gerontology
Work Title
Doctoral student
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Janet C. Bogus, AuD, PhD, Veterans Affairs
Work Title
Audiologist
Claudette M. Peterson, Ed.D., North Dakota State University
Work Title
Professor
Eleanor K. Covan, PhD, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Work Title
Professor