What Is “Normal Hearing” for Older Adults and Can “Normal-hearing Older Adults” Benefit from Hearing Care Intervention?

Repeatedly, research and large-scale studies have identified self-reported hearing difficulties as one of the strongest predictors of hearing aid uptake and use. This further reinforces the need for the older consumer and the hearing care professional to quantify the severity of hearing difficulties above and beyond those captured by the pure-tone audiogram.

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