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Three age cohorts of elderly persons in Göteborg (70, 75 and 88 years of age) were studied regarding hearing aid (HA) rehabilitation, on the one hand, and measured and self-assessed hearing, on the other. The participants, 615 in number, were representative of their ages and were selected from a geriatric population study. At age 70, 12% of the participants had been equipped with HAs. At age 75, the corresponding figure was 14% and at age 88, 32%. The correlations between self-assessed and audiometrically measured hearing were reasonably high (r = 0.5-0.7). According to the result for the self-assessed measure, we estimate that elderly persons with pure-tone averages (PTAs) at 30 dB HL (0.5-4 kHz, better ear) are in need of aural rehabilitation. Nevertheless, few subjects with PTAs between 30 and 49 dB HL have been equipped with HAs. At age 88, almost 20% of those with pronounced problems had no HA. Very few participants with no documented hearing problems for aural rehabilitation had been equipped with HAs.
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A K Karlsson, and
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A K Karlsson, and
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Ear and hearing,
