PT, PTA, OT, OTA, SLP – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information.  
Hearing impairment? Cognitive impairment? Are these related? In this episode, we talk with Julia Barrett, OTR/L, MBA, about the value of managing hearing loss on quality of life and outcomes in clients with dementia and other cognitive impairments.
(02:06) Why It Matters 
(03:00) Correlation Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline 
(05:22) Hearing Loss: A Modifiable Risk Factor 
(07:44) Hearing Loss and Cognitive, Physical, and Social Activity 
(11:44) Client Identification 
(14:10) Interventions: Hearing Aids 
(18:46) Interventions: Assistive Listening Systems 
(21:30) Interventions: Personal Devices 
(24:38) Cognitive Impairment and Hearing Devices 
(28:12) Determining Success 
(30:14) Rehab Interventions and Documentation 
(31:32) Rehab Interventions: OT 
(32:43) Rehab Interventions: SLP 
(34:27) Rehab Interventions: PT 
(35:04) Rehab Intervention: General 
(37:02) Goal Writing 
(37:25) Goal Writing: SLP 
(38:30) Goal Writing: OT 
(39:59) Goal Writing: PT 
(40:31) Sample Goals 
(42:45) Client Example 
(45:03) Organizational Support 
(46:03) Summary 
(47:45) Conclusion 
The content for this course was created by Julia Barrett, OTR/L, MBA.
This course was created by Relias staff writer Susan Almon-Matangos, MS/CCC-SLP.
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Resources 
Assistive listening systems, Hearing Loss Association of America: https://www.hearingloss.org/hearing-help/technology/hat/alds/
 
Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation regarding loneliness and Alzheimer’s disease: https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/feeling-lonely-increases-alzheimers-risk-2/
 
Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE) Screen: https://fallpreventionwny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/hearing-handicap-inventory.pdf
 
Hearing loss and dementia (Healthy Hearing): https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/52904-The-connection-between-hearing-loss-and-cognitive-decline
 
Hearing loss treatment for older adults with hearing loss (Mamo et al., 2018, systematic review): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6428235/
 
Risks of hearing loss (Johns Hopkins Medicine):
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-hidden-risks-of-hearing-loss
 
World Health Organization guidelines for reducing risk of cognitive decline and dementia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542785/