Adult Hearing is a professional education platform that aims to increase awareness via the latest clinical evidence to reach an agreed standard of care for adults with hearing loss. The site is formed in collaboration with members of the Delphi Consensus Group as well as the Consumer and Professional Advocacy Committee.
Standards of Care
The 2023 Standards of Care for hearing health includes all of the current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide clinicians, patients, researchers, payers, and others with the components of hearing care, general treatment goals, and tools to evaluate the quality of care.
About Adult Hearing
Purpose of Adult Hearing
Improve access to cochlear implants for people with hearing loss and educate and empower hearing health practitioners to identify and treat CI candidates.
Goals
1. Provide an interface to keep professionals up-to-date with scientific information and best practice examples for treating adult hearing loss.
2. Advance cochlear implant therapy as a sustainable counselling option, increasing the likelihood that a CI candidate will be evaluated by a specialist.
3. Create an online platform to provide access to continuous learning opportunities and enable community engagement, leading to increased awareness and confidence in CI solutions.
Raising awareness and understanding of cochlear implant use in adults
Hearing loss is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, affecting 466 million people (6% of the total population). It is expected that there will be 630 million people living with disabling hearing loss by the year 2030, with that number rising to over 900 million by 20501, 2 if unaddressed.
Hearing loss has a substantial impact on people’s lives, including, but not limited to:
- communication difficulties 3
- social isolation4
- depression5
- falls6 and
- increased healthcare utilisation7
In addition, it is the single largest modifiable risk factor for dementia.8
Adult Hearing aims to increase awareness via the latest clinical evidence to reach an agreed standard of care for adults with hearing loss.
Watch the video to discover more about Adult Hearing’s aim and purpose.
Please imagine a realistic utopia for those with hearing loss and marshal the best available science to recommend transformational actions to achieve that vision.
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Consumer and professional organisations
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