The best advice for those with hearing loss, from a leading audiologist and from patients with personal experience
Where can the most accurate and helpful information about hearing loss be found? From a friend or relative who has impaired hearing? From an experienced audiologist? Both, says the author of this essential book!
In an unusual new approach, audiologist John M. Burkey offers not only specific and up-to-date information based on his own extensive experience with patients, but also useful, first-hand advice from those patients themselves. The Hearing-Loss Guide presents clear, basic facts on hearing impairment and treatments, followed by candid personal recommendations from people who are coping successfully with hearing difficulties. For anyone confronting hearing loss, for family members and friends, and for others who work alongside or care for a person with a hearing impairment, this book is a must-read.
Inside The Hearing-Loss Guide:
· Specific practical advice from patients and family members for coping with hearing loss
· A professional audiologist's clear explanations of hearing loss, current treatments, hearing aids, and other devices
· Helpful suggestions for friends, co-workers, and caretakers of persons with hearing difficulties
The Hearing-Loss Guide
Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families
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- ISBN: 9780300213539
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- ISBN: 9780300213539
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Booklist
March 1, 2015
America's aging population faces all kinds of potentially embarrassing challenges, including one of the most common, hearing loss. Rather than using the authority-to-patient model, clinical audiologist Burkey shares first-person accounts to establish a greater degree of personal experiences, a more effective and more comforting approach to a health concern many find difficult to acknowledge and deal with in our youth-obsessed culture. Burkey covers the basics of hearing loss: the anatomy and functions involved, the medical tests, and the available treatments, from surgery to technological aids such as amplified telephones. These explanations provide the foundation for the patient accounts, which make up most of the book. People discuss hearing loss consequences: you feel left out . . . isolated . . . discouraged . . . irritable. One individual offers a wish list that includes better advice on hearing-loss prevention and hearing aids free of background noise. Others offer commentary from the perspective of the spouse or significant other of a hearing-impaired person. With a resource list and other useful addenda, Burkey's guide fills an important niche in health-care literature.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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