A Public Health Approach to Hearing Loss and Aging

A Public Health Approach to Hearing Loss and Aging

Instructors: Jennifer A. Deal, PhD

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3 hours to complete

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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3 hours to complete

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At the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, we are dedicated to training up the next generation of clinicians and researchers to study the impact that hearing loss in older adults has on public health and to develop and implement public health strategies and solutions for hearing loss. The Center is proud to present this course which introduces a public health approach to aging and hearing population-based research, reviews the state of public health policy and ongoing interventions, and discusses the current epidemiologic research linking hearing loss to cognitive and healthcare outcomes in older adults, including dementia. Learners will be hearing from Johns Hopkins faculty and researchers who will speak on their expertise in areas of otolaryngology, audiology, epidemiology, gerontology, and public health policy/economics.

Introduces hearing loss as a public health issue and provides a framework for evaluating how hearing loss is important to the health of older adults, including a discussion of basic epidemiologic study design. Provides a rationale for why hearing loss may be related to dementia diagnosis in older adults.

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4 videos1 reading1 assignment2 discussion prompts2 plugins

4 videos Total 51 minutes

Rationale and guiding questions for studying aging, hearing, and public health 12 minutes
Dementia 8 minutes
Linking hearing loss to function: what are the pathways? 14 minutes
Introduction to Epidemiologic Study Designs 17 minutes

1 reading Total 1 minute

Welcome to the course 1 minute

1 assignment Total 9 minutes

Background 9 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 10 minutes

Do you have any examples, either clinical or personal, of a situation in which hearing may have impacted an older adult’s ability to participate? 5 minutes
How do you see sensory function linked to social, cognitive, and physical function in older adults? 5 minutes

2 plugins Total 7 minutes

Anonymous Demographics Survey 5 minutes
What We're Doing at the Cochlear Center 2 minutes

Summarizes current epidemiologic research linking hearing loss to cognitive and healthcare outcomes in older adults, including dementia.

What's included

2 videos1 assignment1 discussion prompt

Presents an overview of hearing’s impact on healthcare utilization, and of the translation of population based research into policy and interventions.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment3 discussion prompts

3 videos Total 34 minutes

Hearing in Health Care 10 minutes
Workforce Policy and Device Regulation 10 minutes
Community-Delivered Hearing Care in Practice 14 minutes

1 reading Total 5 minutes

Closing Thoughts 5 minutes

1 assignment Total 8 minutes

Application and Translation 8 minutes

3 discussion prompts Total 13 minutes

What resources are lacking for hearing care in your community? 5 minutes
What are the healthcare policies for hearing health in your community? 5 minutes
What are barriers to hearing health care in your community? 3 minutes

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Jennifer A. Deal, PhD

Johns Hopkins University

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Reviewed on Oct 1, 2022

its very useful for everyone for clinician,reasearcher,policy makers,public health practitioners,academician.great and thanks

Reviewed on Sep 10, 2023

This course is very timely as it tackle the real issues that touching on the community at large

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