Listening Effort, Fatigue and Social Isolation: Consequences of Age Related Hearing Loss
Course: #31022Level: Intermediate 1.5 Hours 760 Reviews
A hallmark of age related hearing loss is difficulty understanding in noisy environments. The difficulty requires significant listening effort on the listener’s part which, when prolonged, is associated with fatigue. The fatigue in combination with the listening effort and cognitive load often leads people to withdraw from social situations. Social disengagement has many downstream negative outcomes which will be discussed in this course.
Please note: You may earn ABA Tier 1 credits for this course if you complete it as part of the course 32200, "Hearing Loss and Aging Series." Course 32200 contains recordings of all four events from our 2018 series on Hearing Loss and Aging. ABA Tier 1 CEUs can be earned only when all modules are completed as part of course 32200.
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course learners will be able to distinguish between the terms loneliness and social isolation and will be able to identify consequences of each.
- After this course learners will be able to distinguish between listening effort and fatigue.
- After this course learners will be able to describe tools they can use to measure loneliness, social isolation, and fatigue.
Course created on April 25, 2018
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-15 Minutes | Epidemiology and Definition of Terms |
| 15-25 Minutes | Model for how speech understanding difficulty leads to social isolation |
| 25-45 Minutes | Evidence linking hearing difficulties to listening effort, fatigue and social/emotional loneliness and social isolation |
| 45-50 Minutes | Q & A |
| 50-60 Minutes | Value of social integration and social environment |
| 60-70 Minutes | Sociology 101 |
| 70-80 Minutes | Risk factors of loneliness and effects of hearing loss |
| 80-85 Minutes | Clinical implications |
| 85-90 Minutes | Summary and Q & A |
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Barbara Weinstein
PhD
Professor Barbara Weinstein is a Professor of Audiology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Hospitial. She developed the world’s most widely used tools to identify patients with hearing loss which have been translated into 20+ different languages and are used globally to document the negative health effects associated with hearing loss and the outcomes associated with hearing aid use, audiologic rehabilitation and counseling, and e-rehabilitation. Dr. Weinstein has also widely researched geriatric audiology in the areas of screening and psycho-social factors associated with hearing loss. She completed one of the first studies on senile dementia and hearing loss, and hearing loss and social isolation.
Dr. Weinstein founded and directed the Doctoral Program in Audiology at the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City as well as the Doctoral programs in Public Health, Nursing Sciences and Physical Therapy. The author of both editions of Geriatric Audiology, Dr. Weinstein has represented the field of audiology on federal panels and has been a leader in audiology professional societies. Her policy and opinion pieces are read nationally and internationally by members of the audiology community and by lay people, as well.
Dr. Weinstein has long advocated for the integration of hearing health care into the mainstream be it cultural, medical or religious institutions. Her research on hearing loss and dementia, and on the social consequences of hearing loss, has profound implications at the intersection of audiology, medicine and society.
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