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Unit 3 - Hearing Loss Interventions Flashcards

1
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How do hearing aids work? (2)

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  • amplifies sound
  • battery operated, amplifier, a microphone and a receiver
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What percentage of people who have a hearing age have improved communication? (2)

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90%
- People with hearing aides and those with normal hearing have equivalent measures of quality of life

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How should you care for a hearing aide (5)

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  • obtain from a reputable company
  • audiology rehabilitation
  • keep fresh battery available
  • clean (follow policy)
  • never use alcohol to clean
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What percentage of the population that could benefit from hearing aides actually use them?

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17%

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What are the types of hearing aides? (4)

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  • behind the ear
  • mini behind the ear
  • in the ear
  • completely in canal
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What are the factors than impinge on treatment of hearing loss? (6)

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  • feelings about hearing aides
  • cost
  • difficulty arranging evaluations
  • lack of transportation
  • embarrassment about using hearing aids
  • lack of manual dexterity
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Assistive listening devices help enhance face to face communication. Name these devices (5)

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  1. text messaging devices
  2. Closed caption television
  3. Alerting devices
    - vibrating alarms, sound lamps, pocket talkers
  4. Hearing dog
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What are pocket talkers?

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  • amplify talker’s voice and send it to the user’s ear through earphones
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What are ways to communicate with an older adult experiencing hearing impairment, through your speech? (9)

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  1. Avoid shouting - project voice
  2. Position is optimal for seeing speaker’s face
  3. Clear articulation - pause between sentences
  4. lower your tone
  5. ask older adult/family what helps them hear best
  6. Slow to moderate rate of speech
  7. Position according to the ear that has the best hearing
  8. Nonverbal - gestures, visual aids as appropriate
  9. Assistive listening devices
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What are ways to communicate with an older adult experiencing hearing impairment through the environment? (2)

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  • eliminate environmental noise and distractions
  • consider background noise echoeng or poor acoustics
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What are ways to communicate with an older adult experiencing hearing impairment, through providing resources?

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such as lions foundation, hearing dog guides

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What are the outcomes of interventions when it comes to population health? (3)

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  • educating everyone about the risk of being in a loud environment for extended periods of time
  • reduces the extent of hearing loss experienced in aging
  • reduces the occurrence of tinnitus
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What are the outcomes of intervention when it comes to an individual? (6)

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  • communication improved: improved ability to hear conversation
  • intervene to overcome factors impinging on treatment:

Hearing Aide
- person use hearing aide
- they report they can hear better
- telephone calls

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What are the risk factors in a population for impaired hearing? (5)

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  1. male gender
  2. Men with hair in the ear (ear canal tragi)
  3. Increased age
  4. Genetic predisposition
  5. Education level less than or equal to high school diploma
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What are the risk factors regarding lifestyle for impaired hearing? (3)

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Occupation: exposed to noise
- Noise induced Hearing Loss (NINL)
- smoking

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What are the risk factors regarding medical conditions for impaired hearing? (9)

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  • systemic diseases can contribute to hearing impairment:
  • diabetes
  • hypertension
  • hypothyroidism
  • head injury
  • high fevers
  • renal failure
  • CV disease
  • brain tumour
17
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Which medications are risk factors for impaired hearing? (3)

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ototoxic medications
- furosemide
- ciprofloxacin
those are the most common

18
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Another Risk factor for hearing impairment is Tinnitus. What is it?

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  • perception of sound with the absence of acoustic stimuli
19
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What is the most common type of tinnitus?

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high pitched with sensorineural loss

20
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What is the least common type of tinnitus?

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  • low pitched and associated with conduction hearing loss
21
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What are the causes of tinnitus? (2)

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  • root cause is in the vestibulo-cochlear nerve, the inner ear or the central processing centres of the brain
  • can be caused by loud noises, excessive cerumen
22
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What are the impacts of tinnitus?

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impacts ability to carry out ADLs

23
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How many medications list tinnitus as a potential side effect? (2)

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  • 200 prescription and non prescription meds
  • aspirin most common
24
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In summary. what are the interventions to prevent hearing loss? (3)

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  • primary is to stop root cause
  • hearing protection through the entire life time
  • education about risks
25
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In summary. what are the interventions to identify hearing loss? (2)

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  • recognize risk and hearing impairment assessment and screening of hearing
  • recognize risk for wax build up and teach how to treat (soften ear wax)
26
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In summary. what are the interventions to treat hearing loss? (3)

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  • minimize damage of pathological conditions
  • ear irrigation (as per facility policy)
  • referral
27
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In summary. what are the interventions to compensate for hearing deficits? (3)

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sound amplification - hearing aides
- auditory rehab
- foster communication

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