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| The effects of improving hearing in dementia | | Author(s) | N Harry Allen, Alistair Burns, Valerie Newton |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 32, no 2, March 2003 |
| Pages | pp 189-193 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Hearing Impairment ; Hearing aids ; Greater Manchester. |
| Annotation | The presence of dementia should not preclude assessment for a hearing aid, and all patients with hearing impairment require thorough examination. This Greater Manchester study monitored the effects of hearing aids on people with hearing loss and dementia. Almost half of the mildly hearing impaired patients with dementia in the sample improved when hearing loss was restored. The study notes that people with dementia can tolerate routine audiological procedures. 10% of the patients with dementia and hearing loss also benefited from removal of ear wax. Whilst hearing does not improve cognitive function or reduce behavioural or psychiatric symptoms, there is evidence that patients improved on global measures of change. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030425210 A |
| Classmark | EA: BV: M8: 83 |
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