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Geriatric Audiology

Geriatric Audiology

Weinstein

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Edition: 2
Copyright Year: 2013
Details: 376 pages
ISBN: 9781604061741
Binding Type: Hardback
PDF ISBN: 9781604067750
Epub ISBN: 9781638531210
Illustration Number and type: 69

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Completely revised and updated, Geriatric Audiology, Second Edition is a unique handbook that provides audiologists, speech language pathologists, and doctoral students in audiology with evidence-based, clinical guidance on evaluating and treating hearing loss in older adults. Focusing solely on geriatric audiology, this new edition contains the latest information on the demographics of aging as well as the biological, sociological, and psychological factors that affect geriatric hearing loss and its ramifications.

Key features:

  • Includes a new chapter designed to help audiologists and speech language pathologists teach health care professionals about hearing loss diagnosis and management
  • Emphasizes patient-centered hearing health care
  • Contains updated chapters on hearing loss, pure tone and speech findings, hearing aids, and audiologist rehabilitation and counseling for geriatric patients, giving readers comprehensive information on important areas in the specialty

Based on Dr. Weinstein's extensive experience in geriatric audiology, this book is an invaluable resource for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and others involved in the care of elderly patients with hearing, speech, language, voice problems, and other communicative disorders.

Section I Aging: Normal and Abnormal Aspects
1 The Demography and Epidemiology of Aging
2 The Biology of Aging
3 Psychosocial Changes with Aging
4 The Aging Auditory System
Section II Age-Related Changes in Hearing
5 Pure-Tone Data, Otoacoustic Emissions, and Immittance Findings
6 Speech Recognition and Functional Deficits
Section III Rehabilitation Considerations
7 Audiologic Rehabilitation/Communication Management: An Integrated Approach
8 Sensory Management
Part 1 Hearing Aids
Part 2 Cochlear Implants, Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids, and Hearing-Assistance Technologies
9 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Older Adults
10 Primary Care Physicians and Audiologists: Partners in Care
11 Long-Term-Care Services
12 Financing Health Care

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