2013
DOI: 10.4236/ijohns.2013.24025
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Presbycusis: A Critical Issue in Our Community

Abstract: Hearing is an important sensation to the elderly as it promotes their quality of life and maintains their safety and wellness. For example, healthy hearing lets the elderly catch alarm sounds, stay alert to danger whilst asleep, listen in the dark, detect sounds from behind, communicate efficiently with other people, and maintain links to the world via telephone and radio, especially after retirement. However, age-related hearing loss, i.e., presbycusis, seems to become a growing problem in our community. The … Show more

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“…A presbiacusia, que é a perda auditiva decorrente do envelhecimento (Gacek e Schuknecht, 1969), vem sendo apontada como a causa mais frequente da deficiência auditiva em idosos, implicando em uma dificuldade de compreensão durante a comunicação verbal (Campo et al, 1996;Lopes Filho e Campos, 1997;Zhang et al, 2013).…”
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“…A presbiacusia, que é a perda auditiva decorrente do envelhecimento (Gacek e Schuknecht, 1969), vem sendo apontada como a causa mais frequente da deficiência auditiva em idosos, implicando em uma dificuldade de compreensão durante a comunicação verbal (Campo et al, 1996;Lopes Filho e Campos, 1997;Zhang et al, 2013).…”
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“…Em estudo de revisão sistemática da literatura e metanálise, Akinpelu et al (2013) (Carvalho e Garcia, 2003;Nasri, 2008 (Schuknecht, 1964;Gacek e Schuknecht, 1969;Schuknecht e Gacek, 1993;Koopmann Jr, 1991;Fransen, 2003;Zhang et al, 2013 (Gacek e Schuknecht, 1969).…”
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