Aging Flashcards
Describe age-related changes to hearing and hearing functions
Describe age-related changes in overall health and healthcare needs
Describe research data sources
Discuss how the age-related changes affect how AuDs care for the older population
Reflect on how social issues surrounding aging may present in audiologic care dynamics
Polypharmacy = __________ drugs/day
4
List 2 problems with polypharmacy
List 2 comorbidities with age-related hearing loss
List (4) geriatric syndromes discussed in the chapter
- Vestibular impairment
- Dementia
- Cerebrovascular accident (CVA, stroke)
- Depression
How should our approaches and our practices be different for older adults compared to less older adults?
What role will AuDs play in the older adults’ improvement in quality of life, in ways other/more than hearing aid dispensing?
List (3) comorbidities related to age-related hearing loss
Describe an age-related physiologic change in the OUTER EAR and how it impacts the manner in which we provide hearing healthcare.
T/F: Degeneration of outer hair cells is most severe in the outer row
True
T/F: Loss of OHC is almost always associated with loss of ganglion cells
False
T/F: Puretone thresholds can be predicted from the amount and location of ganglion cell loss
True
T/F: Speech recognition ability is associated with the amount and location of ganglion cell loss
False
T/F: Outer and inner hair cells degenerate independently
True
T/F: Degeneration of stria vascularis reduces the endolymphatic potential
Describe one age-related change that is observed in the central auditory system
List one extrinsic factor that impact auditory deprivation among those with hearing loss
Social isolation
List two intrinsic factors that impact auditory deprivation among those with hearing loss
Depression
Cognitive impairment
T/F: Age-related hearing loss is unilateral or asymmetrical
False?
T/F: Most typically, but not always, the greatest loss is in the highest frequencies
True?
T/F: Older women tend to present with greater low-frequency loss compared to oolder men
True?
T/F: Typical configuration of high-frequency hearing loss in older women is sharply sloping
False?
T/F: Age-related hearing loss is typically sensory/neural in nature
True
T/F: Older men tend to present with more severe high-frequency hearing loss than odler women
True?
T/F: Prevalence of hearing loss is much higher in older black men and women compared to their white counterparts
True?
T/F: Age-related cochlear conductive loss is due primarily to the reduced elasticity of the basilar membrane
False?
