Chapter 10

Question 1

What is presbycusis?

Answer 1

A sensorineural loss that happens often to seniors

Question 2

What are the four types?

Answer 2

Sensory, neural, metabolic, inner ear presbycusis

Question 3

What is the cognitive perspective of presbycusis?

Answer 3

That seniors just lose the ability to organize sound

Question 4

What is the Denver scale of communication function?

Answer 4

It examines communication function in four categories: family, self, social-vocational, and general communication experience

Question 5

Males perceive greater handicap in the _ areas while females perceive greater handicap in the _ areas

Answer 5

Social areas for men

Emotional areas for women

Question 6

Results suggest that women _ to hearing loss in a different manner than men

Answer 6

Adapt

Question 7

What are the benefits of these outcome measures?

Answer 7

They assess effectiveness of HAs
Create evidence base for the profession
Create clinical practice guidelines
Reduce variability from client to client and practice to practice
Guidelines promote high quality care

Question 8

Questionnaires are much more commonly used now because audiograms do not provide what?

Answer 8

The info necessary to determine the actual handicap

Question 9

Seniors complain of HAs. What do they complain about the most?

Answer 9

Background noise
Fitting/comfort
Mechanical problems
Concerns that aids provide too little benefit for cost

Question 10

Instruction to help hearing impaired person maximize their potential for communication is called:

Answer 10

Communication training

Question 11

The strategy of preparing things so that communication has the greatest chance of success is called:

Answer 11

Facilitative strategies

Question 12

When there has already been a breakdown in communication, that is when you use _ strategy

Answer 12

Repair

Question 13

What are message-tailoring strategies?

Answer 13

Changing how message is delivered

Question 14

Constructive strategies?

Answer 14

Modifying environment to be more conductive to communication

Question 15

Attending strategies?

Answer 15

Focus efforts to succeed in obtaining the message

Question 16

Anticipatory strategies?

Answer 16

Preparing to understand based on context or experiences

Question 17

Receptive repair strategies?

Answer 17

Used when they haven’t understood the message

Question 18

Expressive repair strategies?

Answer 18

Used when their conversation partner has not understood them

Question 19

What are three types of communication styles?

Answer 19

Passive
Agressive
Assertive

Question 20

This was not everything on the powerpoint. Definitely go back and review. But here is a summary of communication training strategies for seniors:

Answer 20

Should try to meet the patient’s expectations, age, socioeconomic background, lifestyle, and particular communication difficulties.
Excessive sympathy not expressed and personal problems not related to hearing loss are avoided.
May include facilitative and/or repair strategies.
Working on the four factors that affect communication: the talker, the environment, the listener, and the message.
Learning to rectify breakdowns in communication.
Learning to recognize assertive and non-assertive behaviors and to use assertive behaviors.