Aging

Question 1

Describe age-related changes to hearing and hearing functions

Question 2

Describe age-related changes in overall health and healthcare needs

Question 3

Describe research data sources

Question 4

Discuss how the age-related changes affect how AuDs care for the older population

Question 5

Reflect on how social issues surrounding aging may present in audiologic care dynamics

Question 6

Polypharmacy = __________ drugs/day

Answer 6

4

Question 7

List 2 problems with polypharmacy

Question 8

List 2 comorbidities with age-related hearing loss

Question 9

List (4) geriatric syndromes discussed in the chapter

Answer 9

1. Vestibular impairment
2. Dementia
3. Cerebrovascular accident (CVA, stroke)
4. Depression

Question 10

How should our approaches and our practices be different for older adults compared to less older adults?

Question 11

What role will AuDs play in the older adults’ improvement in quality of life, in ways other/more than hearing aid dispensing?

Question 12

List (3) comorbidities related to age-related hearing loss

Question 13

Describe an age-related physiologic change in the OUTER EAR and how it impacts the manner in which we provide hearing healthcare.

Question 14

T/F: Degeneration of outer hair cells is most severe in the outer row

Answer 14

True

Question 15

T/F: Loss of OHC is almost always associated with loss of ganglion cells

Answer 15

False

Question 16

T/F: Puretone thresholds can be predicted from the amount and location of ganglion cell loss

Answer 16

True

Question 17

T/F: Speech recognition ability is associated with the amount and location of ganglion cell loss

Answer 17

False

Question 18

T/F: Outer and inner hair cells degenerate independently

Answer 18

True

Question 19

T/F: Degeneration of stria vascularis reduces the endolymphatic potential

Question 20

Describe one age-related change that is observed in the central auditory system

Question 21

List one extrinsic factor that impact auditory deprivation among those with hearing loss

Answer 21

Social isolation

Question 22

List two intrinsic factors that impact auditory deprivation among those with hearing loss

Answer 22

Depression
Cognitive impairment

Question 23

T/F: Age-related hearing loss is unilateral or asymmetrical

Answer 23

False?

Question 24

T/F: Most typically, but not always, the greatest loss is in the highest frequencies

Answer 24

True?

Question 25

T/F: Older women tend to present with greater low-frequency loss compared to oolder men

Answer 25

True?

Question 26

T/F: Typical configuration of high-frequency hearing loss in older women is sharply sloping

Answer 26

False?

Question 27

T/F: Age-related hearing loss is typically sensory/neural in nature

Answer 27

True

Question 28

T/F: Older men tend to present with more severe high-frequency hearing loss than odler women

Answer 28

True?

Question 29

T/F: Prevalence of hearing loss is much higher in older black men and women compared to their white counterparts

Answer 29

True?

Question 30

T/F: Age-related cochlear conductive loss is due primarily to the reduced elasticity of the basilar membrane

Answer 30

False?