Chapter 10 Flashcards
What is presbycusis?
A sensorineural loss that happens often to seniors
What are the four types?
Sensory, neural, metabolic, inner ear presbycusis
What is the cognitive perspective of presbycusis?
That seniors just lose the ability to organize sound
What is the Denver scale of communication function?
It examines communication function in four categories: family, self, social-vocational, and general communication experience
Males perceive greater handicap in the _ areas while females perceive greater handicap in the _ areas
Social areas for men
Emotional areas for women
Results suggest that women _ to hearing loss in a different manner than men
Adapt
What are the benefits of these outcome measures?
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
Questionnaires are much more commonly used now because audiograms do not provide what?
The info necessary to determine the actual handicap
Seniors complain of HAs. What do they complain about the most?
Background noise
Fitting/comfort
Mechanical problems
Concerns that aids provide too little benefit for cost
Instruction to help hearing impaired person maximize their potential for communication is called:
Communication training
The strategy of preparing things so that communication has the greatest chance of success is called:
Facilitative strategies
When there has already been a breakdown in communication, that is when you use _ strategy
Repair
What are message-tailoring strategies?
Changing how message is delivered
Constructive strategies?
Modifying environment to be more conductive to communication
Attending strategies?
Focus efforts to succeed in obtaining the message
Anticipatory strategies?
Preparing to understand based on context or experiences
Receptive repair strategies?
Used when they haven’t understood the message
Expressive repair strategies?
Used when their conversation partner has not understood them
What are three types of communication styles?
Passive
Agressive
Assertive
This was not everything on the powerpoint. Definitely go back and review. But here is a summary of communication training strategies for seniors:
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.
