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Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss : A Guide to Prevention and Care /
Baby boomers have always had high expectations. As a generation, they have worked hard and played hard. They have been distinguished for their trendsetting and active lifestyles. As they move into their senior years, this ambitious constituency of 76 million Americans continues to demand a lot from...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What's the big deal about hearing loss?
- How hearing loss may affect you
- How your hearing loss may affect others
- Baby boomers and hearing loss
- Who are these baby boomers?
- Special concerns for baby boomers
- Some final words about baby boomers & hearing loss
- How the ear works
- Understanding your ear
- Understanding the types of hearing loss
- Understanding your hearing test
- Causes and treatments for hearing loss
- Preventable hearing loss
- Treatable hearing loss
- Surmountable hearing loss
- Hearing aid basics
- Hearing aid styles
- Hearing aid circuits
- Hearing aid options
- Other hearing aid basics1
- Satisfaction and dissatisfaction with hearing aids
- Hearing aid benefit
- Hearing aid satisfaction
- Non-hearing aid solutions
- Having a plan
- Having the tools
- New and future options
- Prevention
- Surgery
- Hearing aids
- A cure
- The issues that remain
- Hearing aids revisited
- About insurance
- Hearing research
- Connecting the dots
- Resources.