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Articles by Tesch-Romer, C.

Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol 52, Issue 3 P127-P138, Copyright © 1997 by The Gerontological Society of America


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Psychological effects of hearing aid use in older adults

C Tesch-Romer
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany. [email protected] greifswald.de

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 groups (hearing-impaired control group without hearing aids, n = 42, approximately normal hearing control group, n = 28) were tested longitudinally over a 6- month period. Measures examined their performance in the domains of communication problems, social activities, satisfaction with social relationships, well-being, and cognition. Data analyses show that in older persons with mild to moderate hearing loss, hearing aid use has positive effects on self-perceived hearing handicap, but there is no effect of hearing aid use in domains like social activities, satisfaction with social relations, well-being, and cognitive functioning.


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