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The Prevalence and Impact of Vision and Hearing Loss in the Elderly
1assistant professor, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina meredith_anderson@med.unc.edu.
North Carolina Medical Journal
|April 20, 2017
Abstract:
With a rapidly aging population, awareness of sensory impairments in the older adult population is crucial. Vision and hearing loss, in particular, have a prominent impact on quality of life. Understanding the prevalence and impact of these impairments is important to help patients preserve and maintain a good quality of life.