Audiological Assessment of Older Adults

Marshall, Lynne

doi:10.1055/s-0028-1092000

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“…Copious secretion of wax occurs in individuals of all ages; Marshall (1985), however, indicates that excessive cerumen is more common among older people. An overaccumulation of cerumen can result in a conductive hearing loss and abnormal acoustic immittance results, depending on the degree of obstruction (Wofford, 1981).…”

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The manifestation of middle ear pathology in an elderly group

Cilliers

Merwe

Hurter

et al. 1988

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There is a lack of clarity in the literature regarding the manifestation of the structural changes due to aging in the middle ear and the pathology which occurs in the elderly. In order to determine the incidence and manifestation of middle ear problems in an elderly group, acoustic immittance measurements and otoscopy were carried out on 94 subjects over the age of 65 years. Thirty eight percent of all the subjects tested had abnormal tympanometric results in one or both ears. These abnormal results were due to either pathologies which were medically diagnosed, or other unidentified factors such as possible structural changes in the middle ear as a result of increased age. Otoscopy and acoustic immittance measures should always be carried out as part of the test battery for the elderly.

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Section: The Manifestations Of Outer and Middle Ear Pathologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The manifestation of middle ear pathology in an elderly group

Cilliers

Merwe

Hurter

et al. 1988

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Masking Level Differences for Tones and Speech in Elderly Listeners With Relatively Normal Audiograms

Grose

Poth

Peters

1994

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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This study measured the masking level difference (MLD) for both 500-Hz tone detection and spondee word recognition in two groups of listeners. One group consisted of 9 elderly listeners with normal audiometric sensitivity bilaterally, up to at least 2000 Hz. The other group was a control group of 10 young listeners with normal hearing. The intent was to determine whether the elderly listeners exhibited a reduction in binaural performance that might contribute to the difficulties many such listeners have in understanding speech in noisy situations. By measuring MLDs in elderly listeners in the absence of marked peripheral hearing loss, it was hoped that any observed changes in MLD could be more strongly attributed to central effects. For both tone detection and speech recognition, it was found that the elderly performed more poorly than the young listeners, primarily on the NoSπ condition.

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Speech Understanding Abilities of Older Adults with Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Wilding¹

2010

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Audiological Assessment of Older Adults

Cited by 4 publications

References 63 publications

The manifestation of middle ear pathology in an elderly group

The manifestation of middle ear pathology in an elderly group

Masking Level Differences for Tones and Speech in Elderly Listeners With Relatively Normal Audiograms

Speech Understanding Abilities of Older Adults with Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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