Hearing Impairment: Strategies to Promote Safety and Quality of Care

Moderator: Margaret I. Wallhagen, PhD, GNP-BC, AGSF, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Designed for practitioners across settings who work with older adults at risk for hearing loss (HL), this workshop provides an update on age related HL; its psychosocial, physiological, and cognitive consequences; its assessment; and strategies promoting safety and quality of care. Hands on experience with technologies that facilitate hearing, including both hearing aids and assistive listening devices, and that promote safety in the home will be provided.  

Setting the Stage: Hearing Loss as a Health Issue with Implications for Quality of Life and Safe Care
Margaret I. Wallhagen, PhD, GNP-BC, AGSF

Age-Related Hearing Loss: Epidemiology and Impact on Cognitive Function
Frank R. Lin, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Otology, Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 

Technologies to Promote Hearing Health
Barbara Weinstein, PhD, Professor and Executive Officer, Audiology (Au.D.) Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York