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CONTEMPORARY REHABILITATION OF ADULTS WITH ACQUIRED HEARING LOSS

Luka Bonetti
Iva Ratkovski,
Boris Šimunjak


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Every fourth person aged over 60 years acquires hearing loss. Due to its interference with interpersonal ­communication, hearing loss undermines social life, emotional well-being, functional status and mental health. Modern intervention seeks to reduce the impact of hearing loss on the quality of life through a psycho-social approach. This implies upgrading the hearing aid fitting process with instructional activities, communication training and counseling carried out by an interdisciplinary team. The team’s task is to empower a new hearing aid user to accept hearing loss, to use the ­residual hearing capabilities for functional communication and to prevent social isolation. This paper describes the assumptions and components of a holistic, interdisciplinary process of intervention in the area of acquired hearing loss in the elderly. The paper presents the complex consequences of hearing loss and their highly individual nature; the way on which intervention outcomes depend on determining and satisfying various specific individual needs resulting from hearing loss; the structure and evaluation process of psychosocial intervention for elderly with hearing loss; contribution of the holistic model of ­intervention to the prevention and/or mitigation of the overall impact of hearing loss on quality of life.

Ključne riječi

Persons with hearing impairments – psychology, rehabilitation; Aging – physiology, psychology; Hearing aids – utilization; Quality of life; Communication; Speech perception; Self-assessment; Counseling; Patient education as topic; Patient satisfaction

Hrčak ID:

193282

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/193282

Datum izdavanja:

28.12.2017.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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