EFFECT OF HEARING INTERVENTION ON SOCIAL FUNCTION, DEPRESSION, AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLDER ADULTS
Alison Huang · 2023
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Alison Huang presents a trial on hearing care and mental health in older adults in this 2023 conference paper. Earlier studies tied hearing loss to loneliness, low mood, and weaker social ties, but they could not show that treatment helps. The ACHIEVE trial randomly assigned 977 adults with untreated hearing loss to best practice hearing care or to a health education control program. The adults were aged seventy to eighty-four.
Outcomes include social isolation, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and quality of life tied to health. Huang reports the starting state of the group while the three year results were still being gathered. Loneliness was more common in those with worse hearing, at sixty-nine percent versus sixty-four percent. Physical quality of life was also lower in that group. Depression rates and social network size looked alike across hearing levels. If the trial shows gains, hearing care could scale widely.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alison Huang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |