TY - JOUR
T1 - Age-related Hearing Loss
T2 - Recent Developments in Approaching a Public Health Challenge
AU - Shan, Alan
AU - Lin, Frank R.
AU - Nieman, Carrie L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Frank Lin reports grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01 AG055426, R33 DC015062).
Funding Information:
Carrie L. Nieman reports grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIA K23 AG059900).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - Purpose of Review: Age-related hearing loss is highly prevalent and increasingly recognized as a public health priority. The purpose of this review is to summarize developments in understanding the role hearing plays in aging and new approaches to hearing health care. Recent Findings: Growing evidence from large epidemiologic studies documents an association between hearing loss and the development of incident dementia, accelerated cognitive decline, depression, decreased quality of life, and falls, as well as increased risk of hospitalizations, health care utilization, and expenditures. Recent advances in legislation and delivery models hold promise in increasing access to hearing health care with the ultimate goal of mitigating the impact of hearing loss. Summary: With an aging population, age-related hearing loss will remain a public health priority. While progress has been made in the past decade, more research must be conducted to better understand the consequences of age-related hearing loss and the benefits of treatment, as well as expand access to hearing health care, particularly, as a potentially essential tool to aging well.
AB - Purpose of Review: Age-related hearing loss is highly prevalent and increasingly recognized as a public health priority. The purpose of this review is to summarize developments in understanding the role hearing plays in aging and new approaches to hearing health care. Recent Findings: Growing evidence from large epidemiologic studies documents an association between hearing loss and the development of incident dementia, accelerated cognitive decline, depression, decreased quality of life, and falls, as well as increased risk of hospitalizations, health care utilization, and expenditures. Recent advances in legislation and delivery models hold promise in increasing access to hearing health care with the ultimate goal of mitigating the impact of hearing loss. Summary: With an aging population, age-related hearing loss will remain a public health priority. While progress has been made in the past decade, more research must be conducted to better understand the consequences of age-related hearing loss and the benefits of treatment, as well as expand access to hearing health care, particularly, as a potentially essential tool to aging well.
KW - Age-related hearing loss
KW - Geriatrics
KW - Hearing health care
KW - Hearing loss
KW - Older adults
KW - Public health
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U2 - 10.1007/s40136-020-00271-0
DO - 10.1007/s40136-020-00271-0
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85100639613
SN - 2167-583X
VL - 8
SP - 24
EP - 33
JO - Current Otorhinolaryngology Reports
JF - Current Otorhinolaryngology Reports
IS - 1
ER -