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| Hearing loss impacts on the use of community and informal supports | | Author(s) | Julie Schneider, Bamini Gopinath, Michael J Karpa |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 39, no 4, July 2010 |
| Pages | pp 458-464 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org http://www.bgs.org.uk doi:10.1093/ageing/afq051 |
| Keywords | Hearing Impairment ; Usage [services] ; Community care ; Informal care ; Cross sectional surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The aim of this Australian study is to estimate the cross-sectional and longitudinal impact of hearing loss on use of community support services and reliance on non-spouse family/friends among older people. Blue Mountains Hearing Study participants (n = 2,956) were assessed for hearing impairment by audiologists in sound-treated booths. Participants were classified as hearing impaired if PTA0.5-4 kHz >25 dB HL. Use of services and non-spouse family/friend support was assessed cross-sectionally. Incident use was assessed among survivors at the 5-year follow-up (n = 1,457). A significant cross-sectional association between hearing loss and use of community support services was observed after adjusting for age, sex, living status, self-rated poor health, self-reported hospital admissions, disability in walking and best-corrected visual impairment. Participants with hearing loss who never used a hearing aid were twice as likely to use formal supports as participants without hearing loss. Hearing loss increased the incident need for non-spouse family/friend support or community services. After adjusting for confounding factors, hearing impairment negatively impacted on the independence of older persons by increasing reliance on community or family support. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100809212 A |
| Classmark | BV: QLD: PA: P6: 3KB: 7YA |
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