audiology – MD Update

Audiology Complementary Care Health Topics

Senior Health and Hearing Loss

January 1, 2018July 2, 2018 Lisa Meeker age-related, aspect of life, audiology, CCC-A, click of a pen, cognitive decline, decreased personal safety, diminished personal safety, family relationship, hear loss, high rate of cognitive decline, Lexington imagine, one year follow-up, person cry tear, person cry tear of joy, physical health, physical health of the elderly, reality of hear loss, rustle, rustle of paper, Senior health, sensory deficit, simple hear evaluation, social isolation, Stacey, Stacey high, toll, type of negative emotion, untreated hear loss, vital medical information, volume of the TV, wonderful moment

LEXINGTON Imagine being cut off from communication with your loved ones. Conversations happen around you, but you can’t really participate

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Complementary Care

Staying Connected, Socially and Technologically

October 1, 2013 Jeanette Miller, AuD accelerated cognitive decline, activity of life, adult, aid 5, alarm trend, Alzheimer, amplification phone, Aud, audiologist, audiology, baby boom 's generation, big location, cognitive decline, cognitive state, communication disorder, comprehensive hear healthcare, deafness, dementia, dementia risk, development of dementia, discussed study, disorder, disturb result, ensure independence, extra likelihood, extra likelihood of development of dementia, grow national epidemic, healthcare, hear aid, hear evaluation, hear loss, heart of Lexington, help 2, help of hear aid, Henry Clay Blvd., high likelihood of depression, incident cognitive impairment, J., Jama, John Hopkins study, journal of American medical association, known risk factor of dementia, Lexington, Lexington hear, Lexington untreated hear loss, LHSC, LHSC audiologist, Lin, loss 1, loss 3, MS, NIDCD, noticeable trend, old adult, one-third of American, PhD, physician, physician 's medical model, problem 4, quality healthcare provider, quality of life, R., ramification of untreated hear loss, speech center, speech center 's audiology, think capability, treatment of hear loss, untreated hear loss

LEXINGTON Untreated hearing loss in older adults is a growing national epidemic. While the increase in hearing loss is troubling

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Complementary Care

Television, Telephones, and Sooooo Much More!

September 1, 2013January 20, 2017 Kathryn Sandusky, AUD aid technology, aid user, audiology, audiology practice, average hear aid user, background noise, business phone, ConnectLine, ConnectLine microphone, conversation, even carry, gidgets, hear aid, hear aid technology, improve speech understand, iPads, manufacturer of device, noisy restaurant, Oticon, Oticon 's ConnectLine, Oticon ConnectLine, Oticon ConnectLine wireless microphone, phone, phone conversation, Sooooo, speech clarity, speech understand, technology skill, user of hear aid, year of audiology practice

While the demographic of the average hearing aid user trends more and more into the baby boomer generation, a large

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Get in the Loop

December 1, 2012 Ann L. Rhoten aid microphone, aid technology, aid user, audiologist, audiology, background noise, conspicuous headset, degraded signal, difficult listen environment, effective means of transmit speech, exist amplification system, FM, FM technology, headset, hear aid, hear aid microphone, hear aid technology, hear aid user, hear instrument, hear loop, hear loop work, hearing-impaired, hearing-impaired listener, hearing-impaired patron, hearing-impaired person, input, intelligible sound, loop, loop work, microphone, PA, PA system, passage of the American, reverberant room, small copper telecoil, special headset, telecoil, telecoil pick, theater, transmit speech, venue, wireless speaker

LEXINGTON Although hearing aid technology has significantly improved since digitalization in the 1990s, there continue to be situations that challenge

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Audiology

May 1, 2012 Kathy Sandusky aid set, audiologist, audiology, battery of question, complaint, counsel patient, hear aid set, industry software, new hear instrument, patient 's audiogram, process of counsel patient, protocol of evaluation

One of the primary reasons a patient visits an audiologist is because they have begun to notice a decrease in

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Tinnitus: Is There Really Something That can Be Done?

May 1, 2012 Ann Rhoten audiology, counsel session, debilitate effect of tinnitus, experience tinnitus, feel of hopelessness, habituation, healthcare professional, hyperacusis, instruction demystifies tinnitus, loss of enjoyment of life, negative counsel, neutral signal, origin of the suffer, people experience tinnitus, perception, refrigerator run, seen claim, sound therapy, sound tolerance issue, source of tinnitus, sufferer, sufferer of the tinnitus, therapy, tinnitus, Tinnitus retrain therapy, tinnitus signal, tinnitus sufferer, tolerance, tolerance issue, TRT

Epidemiological studies suggest about 50 million people in the United States have tinnitus. The majority of those people experience tinnitus,

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